OK. I've looked at IGGCSI00. Way to complicated, IMO. REXX is supposed to make things __simple__. creating and decoding buffers in a REXX variable "blob" is not my idea of simple.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Elardus Engelbrecht > Sent: Tuesday, July 26, 2011 9:44 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: musings on listing a catalog > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
