McKown, John wrote: >But I've been doing some work where I really need in depth information about >VSAM clusters. So I've been doing a LISTCAT ENT(...) ALL and parsing the >output. Which is bad because the output could possibly change and break my >code. So here are some ideas for some facilities that I think would be of use. >If IBM doesn't want to, perhaps an OEM such as Dino Software might.
No need to re-invent the wheel, IBM has done that: Catalog Search Interface (CSI). Use REXX or Assembler to use CSI. Look and smell in SYS1.SAMPLIB(IGG*) for a nice start. Quote from 'DFSMS Managing Catalogs': "Catalog Search Interface (CSI) is a read-only general-use programming interface that is used to obtain information about entries contained in catalogs. The catalog entries are selected using a generic filter key provided as input." >1) REXX - It would be nice if I could do the equivalent of a LISTCAT and get >the parsed output back in a stem variable. Or super enhance LISTDSI to work >with VSAM cluster. See above. > And z/OS UNIX skills at my shop are currently limited to three: me, myself, > and I. Four, you forgot your shadow! ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
