I don't know the answer to your question. As Charles said, the JFCB is just the internal representation of your DD statement.
Surely the PDS command can figure it out. Maybe if you look at the source for it.... Tom Marchant On Fri, 14 Jul 2006 14:04:03 -0500, Paul Schuster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Hello: Given an existing PDS on a disk device, how can you programatically >(from assembler) determine how many directory blocks are allocated to it? > >I thought RDJFCB would work but that does not have the JFCBDQTY field filled in. > >If you do an 'I' from ISPF, ISPF does a RDJFCB, but the JFCB image returned >by RDJFCB does not have any of the space parameters (including JFDBDQTY) >filled in. > >Any ideas/solutions are appreciated. > >Thank you. > >Paul > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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

