Through the use of utility control statements, you can logically divide a sequential data set into record groups and assign member names to the record groups. IEBGENER places the newly created members in an output partitioned data set or PDSE.

You cannot produce a partitioned data set or PDSE if an input or output data set contains spanned records.

Figure 1 shows how a partitioned data set or PDSE is produced from a sequential data set used as input. The left side of the figure shows the sequential data set. Utility control statements are used to divide the sequential data set into record groups and to provide a member name for each record group. The right side of the figure shows the partitioned data set or PDSE produced from the sequential input.

Figure 1. Creating a Partitioned Data Set or PDSE from Sequential Input Using IEBGENER