If I update one or more members in a pds in the step 1, how
can I reach these new contents to be used in the step 2 of
the same job? To start a new job via intrdr is not
satisfactory, because I must solve this problem in one job.
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Answer / himap
Be it proper updating or appending the records in the file, accessing updated records would be only possible by program that too if we have an identifier (generally the timestamp). If you are talking of the file rather than the records then refer back can be made use of.
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