On Fri, 26 Sep 2008 09:59:39 -0500, Field, Alan C. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Have you got a COBOL program that can read any file? > >If you do, it can read a PDS member by specifying pdsname(member) in the JCL, e.g //MYDD DD DISP=SHR,DSN=MYPDS(MYMEMBER) > My guess is that the OP needs to be able to dynamically specify the member name to read. I've had similar requests in the past. The program has the PDS, without a member name, allocated to a DD statement. The programmer wants some way to read a control file which will contain the member name to read from that PDS. -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
