This post got sidetracked a lot. 1) APF authorization is not an issue.
2) I want to mimic the behavior of the 'LIKE' JCL parameter in that you can do a 'LIKE' to a data set that you are not authorized to acccess. (E.g., if you do a 'LIKE' to a PDS, it will correctly allocate your new PDS with the same number of directory blocks as the 'LIKED-TO' data set but if you attempt to do an 'I' on that data set, you get the appropriate 'IEC150I 913- 38 ACCESS INTENT(READ ) ACCESS ALLOWED(NONE )' messages.) Obviously IBM code is returning the number of directory blocks without doing an OPEN and CLOSE on the data set. Hence my question on how to do the EXCP I/O (read) without doing OPEN and CLOSE. Perhaps IBM has a undocumented system service to retrieve the # of directory blocks allocated to a data set? 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
