Was looking through the manual and couldn’t find anything obvious that could do this. Did I miss something?
If not, I’d like to suggest a stage or stages that lets you both read and update a CMS NAMES format file. Most of the uses of NAMES files these days are quick no-frills datastores for small numbers of entries. There’s a good section in the Pipes manual on SQL, but DB2/VM is very difficult to obtain these days and is generally overkill for these little datastores with a few dozen entries or so. The CMS NAMEFIND command will do the reading part, but the ability to update would be a real boon (the NAMES command relies on a fairly cryptic external XEDIT macro to update the file). There has to be a better way; alternative ideas or suggestions welcomed.
