On Thu, 9 Jul 2020 22:47:20 -0400, Steve Smith wrote: >I think you'd be disappointed in FAMS, I still don't think it would help. >We all wonder why it's a secret, because there ain't that much to it. >IEBCOPY and the LISTDSI command pretty much expose all there is. > NFS (only, AFAIK) reveals that FAMS maintains high-resolution timestamps, independent of ISPF. I wonder why that's (almost) a secret; why LISTDSI doesn't make them accessible?
>After looking at your old program, I'd give it at least 50-50 odds for >working with PDSEs. I think your worst case would be to abandon QSAM >fiddling and just provide GET/PUT functions. You could probably make that >much more seamless in REXX than in PL/I. > What would substitute for BLDL/FIND/STOW? >On Mon, Jul 6, 2020 at 10:40 PM Seymour J Metz wrote: > >> My STOWBLDL routine at http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3/source/STOWBLDL.ASM >> has code to quiesce a QSAM DCB before going to a new member and reprime >> buffering afterward; this requires dealing with fields in the SAM-E IOB >> extension and the SAM-E Interrupt Control Block. I assume that I would need >> FAMS to do the equivalent for PDSE. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
