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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Dec 18, 2024

UNLOAD SYSPUNCHONLY or UNLOAD NOSYSREC

We are having many developers that need only the SYSPUNCH produced by UNLOAD but not the SYSREC.

Having this option available either via SYSPUNCHONLY or NOSYSREC parameter will allow them to get quickly what they need without unloading of data which consume CPU and elapsed time...


SYSREC DD DUMMY in the jcl didn't produce the result.


Sample of what can be saved :

a developer launched an UNLOAD to get SYSPUNCH for a table containing 465 millions of rows.. This consumed 500 seconds of CPU and ran during 9 minutes.


To get only the SYSPUNCH would be faster and not consuming too much CPU...

Needed By Not sure -- Just thought it was cool