Lizette is correct. There is/was no such option. There are a number of routines out there that provide what amount to formatted dumps of PDS directories. C's original post did, however, suggest that he needed a portable dataset, one he could take elsewhere, containing the contents of such a directory.
--jg On 9/6/12, Lizette Koehler <stars...@mindspring.com> wrote: > Tony, > > That will list the members, I think Charles wants the hex data found in the > directory itself. I am not sure there is an option on LISTD that will dump > the HEX data of the directory itself. > > Lizette > > >> I've used this simple method in the past........ >> >> //S1 EXEC PGM=IKJEFT01 >> //SYSTSPRT DD DSN=YOUR.OUTPUT.FILE,DISP=(NEW,CATLG,), etc etc etc >> //SYSTSIN DD * PROF NOPREFIX LISTDS 'YOUR.PDS' MEMBERS >> >> >> >> >> > ----- Original Message ----- >> > From: "Paul Gilmartin" <paulgboul...@aim.com> >> > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main >> > To: <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> >> > Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2012 9:55 AM >> > Subject: Re: Anyone know how to copy a PDS directory as a flat file? >> > >> > >> > On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 14:14:43 +0000, Bill Fairchild wrote: >> > >> >>Assuming you have the authority to do so, superzap the F1 DSCB for >> >>your source PDS so that its DSORG is PS instead of PO. Then do your >> >> IEBGENER. >> >>Then zap the F1 back to PO. It might work. I have never tried this >> >>myself. >> >> >> > Perhaps you don't know about overrides in JCL DD and ALLOCATE >> > commands? >> > >> > Adding to my prior remark, specify _everything_ in SYSUT1 DD. >> > DSORG, RECFM, LRECL, BLKSIZE. >> > >> > >> > On Thu, 6 Sep 2012 09:56:31 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >> > >> >>Lizette's point that IBM can change the information in a PDS directory >> >>without notice is of course generically correct >> >> >> >>That conceded, such changes have been infrequent for many years; and >> >>the functional stabilization of PDS support that came about with the >> >>introduction of PDSEs makes further such changes unlikely. Brutally >> >>put, PDSEs are changing, PDSs are not. >> >> >> > So much IBM software (probably ISPF) and customer software depend on >> > the PDS directory format that I understand that a PDSE can be opened >> > as PS and PDSE support emulates the PDS directory format. >> > >> >>Have you succeeded in opening your PDS as a sequential file? >> >> >> > I've done it in Rexx. Assembler is for people who like that sort of >> > thing. >> > >> > -- gil >> > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
