IEHPROGM --- ick :) Actually, the requirement to specify volume makes IEHPROGM less than ideal in the SMS world.
Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Chris Mason > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2009 5:08 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: replacement for proc pds rename function... > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
