A member in a PDS aka library has statistics and these statistics can show you the number of records in itself when you go into browse in the member.

If no stats exist you can go into edit and turn them on by entering this on the command line: STATS ON

then PF3 out of the member and it will show you the number of lines. If this is a large PDS then you can count the number of records with a utility such as Fileaid or Syncsort. let me know if you need this explained in JCL.

Hi

I want the record counts in each data set (I want supply the dataset names using wildcard like USERID.D06*.T04* )

I want display the output like

File name record counts

USERID.D061012.T040511 12567

USERID.D061012.T040611 4532

USERID.D061013.T040530 45123

USERID.D061014.T040515 98465

Pls find below answer :

The below statements works fine but displaying output only in toolmsg but not in output dataset. output dataset is empty.

//COUNTIT EXEC PGM ICETOOL
//TOOLMSG DD SYSOUT *
//DFSMSG DD SYSOUT *
//IN1 DD DSN PROD04.MAC.P49768AC DISP SHR
//OUT1 DD DSN TESTC.TCS.MAC.P49768AC DISP MOD
//TOOLIN DD *
COUNT FROM(IN1)
//TOOLIN DD *
COPY FROM(TOOLMSG) TO(OUT1)

Here's a simple DFSORT alternative using ICEMAN that will count the records of a PS and write it onto another PS.