If you are in tso 3.4 and looking at the pds directory and you issue: SAVE LIST
you will get a sequential file with: USERID.LIST.MEMBERS IIRC On Thu, Sep 6, 2012 at 11:39 AM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 <[email protected]> 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" <[email protected]> > >> > Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main > >> > To: <[email protected]> > >> > 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 [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest." Denis Diderot ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
