Answer Posted / suputhru
concatenation is possible up to 16 pds or 255 ps
We can cancatinating diffent files by giving their DSN one after other, all the datasets must be same type.
rules: there should be logical record length must be same
and type recfm is also same
//jobcard
//step1 exec pgm=concat11
//ddname DD dsn=tst.punna.cobol,
// DD dsn=tst.punna.cobol1,
// DD dsn=tst.punna.cobol11,
// DD dsn=tst.punna.cobol211,
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