JCL for previous month-year in dataset name

Question

I need to run a job on the first work day of the month with accounting data for the month-end close(previous month) to be used in some year end jobs. I would like to run the same job each month, with no operator intervention and have the closing month and year in the dataset name so it will be easily identifiable for what closing period the dataset was ceated. Currently run 8 separate jobs to accomplish this task. Please provide specific JCL samples.

Answer 1

It's not clear why you are running 8 separate job to accomplish this task, what does each job do?

Are you using any scheduler to run the job at a specific time?

You can use EZACFSM1 to use system symbolic paramters to add date/time information to dataset names.

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