Do you REXX? This is the best language to deal with strings, allocations and dynamic variables on the fly. It is also run natively under TSO (and TSO batch) and thus, supports ALLOC commands.
Itschak -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Howard Brazee Sent: Thursday, October 18, 2007 4:22 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: How to read source from a PDS member On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:43:51 -0400, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >I need to read source code from a PDS member whose name I don't know >until my program runs, much the same as the COBOL compiler handles >"COPY memname" statements. Is dynalloc the only way to go about it or does zOS provide a nice friendly interface that lets me ask for source member data a line at a time? Something comparable to VSE's LIBRM would be ideal. CoBOL compilers handle COPY commands at compile time, not run time. But you didn't indicate that your source code is CoBOL, it may be some real-time language. Could you provide more detail? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
