You can also use the "fromdsn" shell command, which is part of our free "Dataset Pipes" product. There are *many* advantages over readmvs, including the ability to allocate the dataset with DISP=SHR.
See: http://dovetail.com/docs/dspipes/man/fromdsn.html Regards, Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies On Dec 18, 2007 8:10 AM, Mark Zelden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 17 Dec 2007 23:43:58 -0500, John S. Giltner, Jr. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Tsai Laurence wrote: > >> Hi listers, > >> as the subject, is it doable ? how ? > >> Thanks for your advisement . > >> > >> > >> Sincerely,Laurence > > > > > >@records = '/usr/local/bin/readmvs "//MVS.FILE.NAME"' > >foreach $line (@records) { > >} > > > > > >The above will read the MVS file name "MVS.FILE.NAME" and place each > >record in array @records, then for each line on @record do whatever is > >inbetween the brackets. > > > >There is a writemvs command also, but I have never used it. > > > > readmvs and writemvs are not part of the IBM Ported Tools for z/OS > (Perl for z/OS). They _are_ free tools available on the z/OS UNIX Tools > and Toys download page / web site. > > http://www-03.ibm.com/servers/eserver/zseries/zos/unix/bpxa1ty2.html > > "readmvs is a utility that copies one MVS file to stdout, so it can be > manipulated in shell pipelines and redirected into HFS files. writemvs is > a > utility that copies stdin to an MVS file. ("MVS file" means a sequential > data set or a member of a partitioned data set.) readmvs, writemvs, and > mcp > are packaged together. " > > "mcp is a shell function wrapper for readmvs and writemvs (both are > described below), and all three are packaged together as "readmvs". mcp > mimics the syntax of cp for copying files from one place to another. These > files may be MVS files, indicated by a leading // on each MVS file name. > "MVS file" means a sequential data set or a member of a partitioned data > set. " > > Mark > -- > Mark Zelden > Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead > Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO > mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > z/OS Systems Programming expert at > http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ > Mark's MVS Utilities: > http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html<http://home.flash.net/%7Emzelden/mvsutil.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
