> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Roberts, John J > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2012 11:10 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Audting PDS Datasets and comparing to find most > current member > > John, I'm glad that you have been able to master shell script > coding, and Unix tools like awk, sed, grep, etc. You must > have bought a lot of those O'Reilly books with all the > strange critters on the covers ;-).
My Kindle is registered as a zoo! <grin> > > I tried too, but I could never get the hang of it. I guess > if you don't use it constantly, you lose it. Or maybe this > old dog just can't learn any new tricks. But to me, your > script looks about as inscrutable as APL. Ah, have I not mentioned that I adore APL? Back in college days, I was a member of the "do it in one line of APL or be branded a failure" club. I also enjoy doing SQL multi-joins. > > But if this isn't all Greek to Lizette, this could be the way > to go. It would probably take me a couple hours to develop a > VB program to parse the ISPF listings, something you > obviously whipped up in a few minutes. I tip my hat to you! > > John The "heavy lifting" was done by Dovetail in the pdsdir command. That's what made it rather simple. Without it, I would likely be reduced to a couple of hours of REXX/ISPF programming using the LMxxx functions to get the ISPF stats. I don't "do" Windows. Haven't done any Windows programming since Borland Delphi. Don't even have a Windows machine at home any more. I'm just too frugal (aka "cheap") to pay when I can use Fedora for $0.00 and am able to do what __I__ need to do. -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
