I said use ** for the dsn. It is better to leave the dsn blank. I our shop, this is maybe 5 seconds per volume.
Dennis Roach GHG Corporation Lockheed Martin Mission Services Flight Design and Operations Contract NASA/JSC Address: 2100 Space Park Drive LM-15-4BH Houston, Texas 77058 Mail: P.O. Box 58487 Mail Code H4C Houston, Texas 77258 Phone: Voice: (281)336-5027 Cell: (713)591-1059 Fax: (281)336-5410 E-Mail: [email protected] All opinions expressed by me are mine and may not agree with my employer or any person, company, or thing, living or dead, on or near this or any other planet, moon, asteroid, or other spatial object, natural or manufactured, since the beginning of time. > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 11:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Utility to search multiple files on multiple volumes > > On Tue, 5 May 2009 08:23:04 -0600, Steve Comstock > <[email protected]> > wrote: > > >Tom Marchant wrote: > >> On Tue, 5 May 2009 07:14:29 -0600, Roach, Dennis wrote: > >> > >>> 3.4 with dsn of ** and vol of TSO* to produce the list. > >>> Then srchfor in the command line. > >> > >> Perhaps just before going out to lunch. > >> > > > >But don't leave until you have responded to the pop-up > >asking if you really want to do this, or when you come > >back from lunch it will still be waiting. > > > > If you set your initial view to "Volume", this doesn't take that long.. > especially > compared to a catalog search using "**" (of course YMMV depending on > how > many TSO* volumes there are). Plus there's a good chance the VTOC and > VTOCIX are cached (I hope you are all using VTOCIX). We prevent the > catalog search of generic HLQ with the sample provided exit because it > can > drive the CATALOG asid to use high CPU for a long period of time but > have > found no performance problems caused by letting people use the generic > volser since it affects only 1 volume at a time. > > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
