On Sep 18, 2007, at 12:39 AM, Chris Mason wrote:
Ed
The original poster seemed to want an application to help him
document any source-like member I assumed. I also assumed that he
wasn't wanting to automate the *content* - somehow - but the
problem of somehow associating the description, necessarily keyed
in by hand, with the member. That was where my technique came in
because I recognised the same problem I had rather crudely
overcome. I imagined that just maybe an application could be put
together which helped support the technique.
In his post, Herbie seems to be describing such an application and,
interestingly enough, it involves creating a $INDEX member - the
"$" is all about having the index member appear first when members
are listed in collating sequence in case that wasn't obvious.
Chris Mason
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I have never seen such a facility that worked well. Whether its
automated or not, the best I have seen is that this proc in this step
creates this dataset. What creates this dataset (user program,
utility or ?) was never listed (as I indicated before its useless to
list as the 'control cards") (in the case of the sort) give only the
true indication what the contents of the new dataset is. The
secondary issue is maintaining the "list". I have seen 3
environemnts: never any changes, changes occur a couple of times a
year and a few that change from week to week. Of course the never
change is the "easiest" the other (most common) the cross list is a
PITA to keep up. That is possibly why the person wanted it as the
manual effort would be tremendous, IMO.
I guess I would have to say knowing the program that creates the
dataset is almost useless as almost all utilities can alter the
output in someway.
Saying that it would be useful to see what that program is ONCE in a
while. You would still have to go to the step and probably examine
the control cards to see what the new dataset really contains.
Ed
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