Chuck Arney wrote: <snip>
Specifically, I am looking for suggestions on what is available for mass catalog updates. I'd rather not reinvent the wheel if there are useable tools around.
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I don't know of anything in z/OS itself that does this, but perhaps someone else's product could help. There are at least a couple of companies out there with catalog management products, I think. And a search of the CBT site might bear fruit.
Many moons ago, after a similar search for existing tools, I wrote a quick throwaway program to parse LISTCAT output and build ALTER control statements for IDCAMS for exactly this purpose. (In our case, some people had used esoteric names to catalog their data sets using a utility or DYNALLOC--I forget which--and the catalog entries had to be fixed to move the data sets to different device types.)
These days I'd think it more sensible to use the Catalog Search Interface to find the entries needed to build IDCAMS control statements, which would put a reasonably stable API on both ends of the code. There might be a better way but that's where I'd tend to start if I had to do it over today. (Well, actually, I'd start by dusting off the long-unused brain cells I once used for programming, but...)
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