On Tue, 5 May 2009 12:40:46 -0500, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Tue, 5 May 2009 11:26:20 -0500, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>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). > >It doesn't take long to come up with the list of data sets. The part that >might take a long time is when you issue SRCHFOR against the list of data >sets found. > Can't do anything about that. That is the OP's requirement regardless of how you come up with the libraries to search. I've never compared PDS86 to SRCHFOR, but the OP could save that DSLIST and massage it into PDS86 FIND input if testing proves it to be quicker. 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
