Test if a directory exists in z/OS Unix System Services

  • Post category:Utilities
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Snippet of shell script code to test if a directory exists in z/OS Unix System Services.

#!/bin/sh                                
DEST="/app/somedirectory"                        
if test -d "$DEST"                       
then                                     
    # It is a directory #                
    echo "Directory found ..."           
else                                     
    # does not exist                     
    echo "Directory does not exist"      
fi

Code page conversion of a file in a batch job

  • Post category:JCLUtilities
  • Reading time:2 mins read

In this post a sample of how to perform a code page conversion of z/OS Unix files in a batch job. The different iconv utility lines show invocation for different code pages.

//*                                      
//STEP1    EXEC PGM=BPXBATCH   
//STDERR   DD SYSOUT=*  
//STDPARM  DD   *              
 SH  iconv -f UTF-8 -t IBM-1140 < inutf8 > outebc 
/*                                                     
//               
 SH  iconv -f IBM-1140 -t IBM-1252 < inebc > out1252 
//  
 SH  iconv -f IBM-1252 -t IBM-1140 < in1252 > out1140 
//     
 SH  iconv -f IBM-1140 -t UTF-8 < inebc > oututf8  
 //