Try IDCAMS. You do a REPRO of your PDS where you give the count that matches the number of directory blocks and your output DD. You will need to specify the INPUT DCB parameters, probably like this: DCB=(RECFM=F.LRECL=256).
The output DD can be defined as FB with LRECL=256. This will give you a file of nothing but the directory blocks. I do things like this with RECFM=U and specify DUMP so that I can get a dump of directory blocks when I am trying to figure out some problem with a directory after I have hosed it with a bad STOW or some such. Regards, Steve Thompson Staff Software Engineer Connect:Direct for z/OS __________________ I want to make a PS (flat file) copy of the series of 256-byte blocks of a PDS directory. (I want to copy the data to another platform so I can test some code with it more readily.) I tried //GENER EXEC PGM=IEBGENER //SYSUT1 DD DSN=MY.PDS,DISP=SHR,RECFM=F,DSORG=PS //SYSUT2 DD DSN=THE.SAMPLE.PDSDIR,DISP=(NEW,CATLG), // SPACE=(TRK,(1,1)) <SNIPPAGE> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
