Naming Requirements for External Control Cards

Source files for external cards are registered in the repository as Control Cards files, and must be named as follows, where .srt is the default file extension:

• For an ordinary dataset, if the SYSIN DD statement is:

  //SYSIN DD DSN=MY.SORTCARDS.LIB.FILE1
  

  the source file name must be MY.SORTCARDS.LIB.FILE1.srt.

• For a PDS member, if the SYSIN DD statement is:

  //SYSIN DD DSN=MY.SORTCARDS.LIB(FILE2)
  

  the source file name must be MY.SORTCARDS.LIB(FILE2).srt, or if the member name is unique, FILE2.srt.

• For a generation dataset, if the SYSIN DD statement is:

  //SYSIN DD DSN=MY.SORTCARDS.LIB.FILE3(+1)
  

  the source file name must be MY.SORTCARDS.LIB.FILE3.srt, without the generation number.