Thanks for the response. I am working with just VSAM at this time. However, I will enhance the code to verify if it vsam or non-vsam and then call the appropriate routines (either IGGCSI00 or LISTDSI).
Lizette >On Friday 06 March 2009, Lizette Koehler wrote: >> I am cross posting this to IBM Main incase there are folkes out there that >> use CSI more than the TSO REXX group does. >> >> Lizette >> >> >I have been working with the sample in SYS1.SAMPLIB as well as Mark >> > Zelden's version called catsearch. I want to include the information on >> > High RBA on VSAM data sets. When I add in what I think is correct I get >> > garbage. I am reading Appendix C in the DFSMS Managing Catalogs manual >> > which is where it talks about the CSI. >> > >I suggest you dump the work area after the call to see what it looks like. I >have found the returned work area hard to visualize from just the >description, esp. with multiple entries. Also, if fields names do not apply >to a particualar data set, I believe the field values contain all x'ff's. >i.e. XHARBA is not a valid field for non-vsam, so its returned value will be >x'ffffffffffffffff'. >-- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
