Don and responding contributors Maybe I'm being grossly old-fashioned - and I am certainly grossly out-of-date regarding MVS Utilities - but I believe when I wanted to create a batch job[1] in order to rename the member of a partitioned data set, procedure members in procedure libraries included, I used the entirely free - sorry, at no extra cost from IBM - utility IEHPROGM. The appropriate example - found quickly by searching for "rename" on the Contents web page of the z/OS DFSMSdfp Utilities (SC26-7414-04) manual (to be found in the z/OS V1R10 DFSMS bookshelf):
http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2U130 Specifically "14.5.7 Example 7: Rename a Partitioned Data Set Member". <quote> //REN JOB ... //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IEHPROGM //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //DD1 DD VOL=SER=222222,DISP=OLD,UNIT=disk //SYSIN DD * RENAME VOL=disk=222222,DSNAME=DATASET,NEWNAME=BC,MEMBER=ABC /* </quote> In effect, all the suggestions would appear to be *replacements* for the original IBM IEHPROGM utility which I am prepared to bet predates the programs named in these suggestions - and SAS - by many blue moons. Is there some subtlety I missed here caused by my long neglect of the use of MVS Utilities - or have so many alternatives cropped up in the "good times" packaged with "must-have" products that folk have forgotten about the original "at no extra cost" utilities? Chris Mason [1] With the aid of a little program which converted PARM field data into utility input control data sets - among other uses - and a little program which displayed the contents of the utility output print data set on the console wrapped up in handy started task procedures, I set up many frequently used functions - even incorporating some into automation - which relied on absolutely standard MVS utilities such as IEHPROGM. This was for use - long ago now - with test/education systems where the only significant MVS console was the 3270 where the VM userid for the MVS guest was logged on. On Thu, 30 Apr 2009 04:01:09 -0500, don isenstadt <[email protected]> wrote: >Well times are tough so we are dropping sas .. is there a shareware function >that will do this?? > >PROC PDS DDNAME=RENLIB01; > CHANGE YYY:=XXX:; ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
