Paul, You could use IDCAMS DCOLLECT to extract the volume information (V record) for all online devices. It should have everything you would want or care to know. The record layout is documented in the Access Method Services for Catalogs in Appendix F (z/OS 1.7). Regards, John
IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU> wrote on 10/25/2007 01:19:23 PM: > Paul, > > Is there any reason why you are avoiding UCBSCAN and then a test forUCBONLI ? > > If so, then I suppose you could consider doing the UCBSCAN once (at > init) and then use an ENF listener (codes 23/24/30) to update your > table of units. However, this might seem a little extreme just to > avoid UCBSCAN... > > > Rob Scott > Rocket Software, Inc > 275 Grove Street > Newton, MA 02466 > 617-614-2305 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Paul Schuster > Sent: 25 October 2007 17:25 > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: EDTINFO DEVSTAT ? > > Let me further expand: > > I do a EDTINFO RTNDEVN,UNITNAME=xxxx,DEVNLIST=DEVNLIST > > to (for example) get the list of device numbers associated with > UNIT=SYSALLDA. All of these device numbers will have a UCB > associated with them, but many are 'dummy' UCB's that have no real > volume associated with them. (These are UCB's that have been genned > for future DASD expansion.) > > Does doing a > > EDTINFO CHKUNIT,UNITNAME=xxxx,DEVLIST=,DEVCOUNT=,DEVSTAT= > > provide me the status if a real UCB is at that device # address? > > What I'm trying to accomplish is to build a list of on-line UCB's. > I know I can do a UCBLOOK on each of the device #'s returned with > the EDTINFO RTNDEVN macro and then check if the UCB is online, but I > am looking for something faster. > > Thank you. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
