Read first record of the file using IDCAMS, It will return the cc=0 if th

How do you handle empty files in a JCL ?

Question Posted / bharani

Answer Posted / bharani

Read first record of the file using IDCAMS, It will return
the cc=0 if the file is not empty, otherwise it returns
CC=4.

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