JCL to create new members in a PDS IBM provides a utility to create members in a PDS using JCL. The utility is IEBUPDTE and here is an example JCL to do the needful. //IEBUPDTE EXEC PGM=IEBUPDTE,PARM=NEW //SYSUT2 DD DISP=(NEW,CATLG),DSN=USERID.NEW.PDS, // SPACE=(CYL,(5,5,5),RLSE), // RECFM=FB,LRECL=80,BLKSIZE=0 TEXT IN MEMBER ONE WILL COME HERE THE INDICATOR ./ WILL ACT AS TERMINATING CHAR FOR THIS MEMBER TEXT IN MEMBER TWO WILL COME HERE INDICATOR // WILL ACT AS TERMINATING CHAR FOR THIS MEMBER AND THIS JCL ; ; ; ;