On Fri, 11 Jan 2008 12:11:11 -0600, Gilbert Cardenas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I have created a jcl to list all the GDG datasets that are in a deferred status. >Unfortunately, the jcl is lengthy and runs quite a while because I had to >perform the following steps to filter out only the datasets I wanted : > >STEP1. Perform an IDCAMS LISTCAT UCAT ALL to a dataset to identify all the >user catalogs. > >STEP2. Sort include only the catalog names and reformat the output to >format the IDCAMS spread cards LISTC NVSAM HIST CAT [the catalog name]. > >STEP3. Perform the IDCAMS LISTC from the dataset created in STEP2. > >STEP4. Perform another SORT against the output of STEP3 and include only >the records that contain GDG BASE and reformat the output to format the >IDCAMS spread cards LISTC NVSAM HIST GDG ENT [gdg base name]. > >STEP5. Perform the actual IDCAMS LISTC from the dataset created in STEP4. > >STEP6. SORT include only the records that contain NONVSAM and STATUS >which gives me all the GDG entries and their status. I then perform a search >on deferred to find if there are any GDGs in a deferred rollin status. > >This seems like a lot of rigmarole just to be able to find out what gdgs are in a >deferred status. > >Does anyone have a better/faster/reliable way to do this? > Yes. Do it with the CSI (catalog search interface) in one step. Look at NVSMATTR: +---------------------------------------------------------------------------+ ¦ Table 21. Catalog Field Names ¦ +---------------------------------------------------------------------------¦ ¦ Type ¦ Len ¦ Name ¦ Description ¦ +--------------+-----+------------+-----------------------------------------¦ ¦ Character ¦ 1 ¦ NVSMATTR ¦ Non-VSAM attribute information ¦ +--------------+-----+------------+-----------------------------------------¦ ¦ c'H' ¦ ¦ ¦ Active GDS ¦ +--------------+-----+------------+-----------------------------------------¦ ¦ c'N' ¦ ¦ ¦ Deferred GDS ¦ +--------------+-----+------------+-----------------------------------------¦ ¦ c'M' ¦ ¦ ¦ Rolled-off GDS ¦ +--------------+-----+------------+-----------------------------------------¦ ¦ c'L' ¦ ¦ ¦ Extended partitioned data set (PDSE) ¦ +--------------+-----+------------+-----------------------------------------¦ ¦ c'P' ¦ ¦ ¦ POSIX data set ¦ +--------------+-----+------------+-----------------------------------------¦ ¦ x'00' ¦ ¦ ¦ Simple non-VSAM data set ¦ +--------------+-----+------------+-----------------------------------------+ The CSI documentation is in the "Managing Catalogs" manual. 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
