Jurgen, You could also call idcams, output sysprint to a Qsam file, read with rexx and parse
Scott ford www.identityforge.com On Sep 8, 2012, at 6:46 AM, Lizette Koehler <[email protected]> wrote: > For NONVSAM LISTDSI may work, for VSAM CSI will work. > > And CSI returns the VOLUMES, RBA, and any other catalog information for both > VSAM and NONVSAM. Including if it spans multi volumes. If you look at my > other postings on CSI you will see that IBM has provided other samples to > show how to extract those fields. > > For NON Vsam datasets LISTDSI may only show first volumes, not if it spans > multi volumes. > > If you do a LISTC against a dataset and it shows all the volumes, then the > CSI will be able to retrieve those for you. > > The following version of CSI Rexx I came across is much better than the > SYS1.SAMPLIB version. However, the enhancement you need is to loop through > all the volumes for the dataset. In the SYS1.SAMPLIB Version it only does > one even if there are more. It would be a simple matter to continue until > the end of the volumes was found. > > > And for those that want a better interface to CSI, I came across this gem on > the IBM Website > > ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/dfsms/II14316/II14316.clist.clist > > or tinyurl > http://tinyurl.com/chqotev > > > I have not tried it yet, but apar > II14316: A NEW TOOL IS AVAILABLE TO INVOKE THE CSI (CATALOG SEARCH INTERFACE) > VIA REXX. > > Has some interesting context about making this easier to use. > > Lizette > >> >> Dear Lizette, >> >> thanks for your fast response. I was already aware of the CSI, I used it in >> other REXX >> procedures to search for some datasets similar to ISPF 3.4. But AFAIK CSI >> only gives >> the name of a dataset, but no other attributes (size etc.). In the case I#m >> talking >> about now, I already have the name, but I'm looking for other attributes, >> mainly the >> size of these non-VSAM multi-volume files. Because they are multi-volume >> LISTDSI >> doesn't work, because they are non-VSAM LISTCAT doesn't help although. >> >> >> Am 08.09.2012 00:58, schrieb Lizette Koehler: >>> Yes, you can use the Catalog Search Interface (CSI) to do this. >>> >>> There is documentation in z/OS V1R12.0 DFSMS Managing Catalogs >>> >>> And a sample in SYS1.SAMPLIB(IGGCSIRX) >>> >>> >>> Lizette >>> >> >> -- >> Freundliche Gruesse / Kind regards >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
