DCOLLECT produces flat file of info see https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.3.0?topic=environment-storage-group-data-collection-example-2 Example JCL
//COLLECT2 JOB ... //STEP1 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //OUTDS DD DSN=USER.DCOLLECT.OUTPUT, // STORCLAS=LARGE, // DSORG=PS, // DCB=(RECFM=VB,LRECL=644,BLKSIZE=0), // SPACE=(1,(100,100)),AVGREC=K, // DISP=(NEW,CATLG,KEEP) //SYSIN DD * DCOLLECT - OFILE(OUTDS) - STORAGEGROUP(STGGP001) - NODATAINFO /* record layout here https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/zos/2.1.0?topic=output-dcollect-record-structure You can use dfsort etc to format the entries Ive written a formatter https://github.com/colinpaicemq/SMFFormatter/blob/master/DCOLLECT.md which produces output like ID :S0W1 Time :15:23:52.15 Date :2020/11/24 Storage class :SCAPPL Last updater :IBMUSER Date last updated :2020/11/23 Time last updated :09:27 Description :APPLICATION DATA STORAGE CLASS flag1 :Availability :Use Direct response time :Use Seq response time flag2 :Guaranteed space yes Accesibility :3 Dir ms rate (MSR) :9 Direct MSR 9 means May CACHE Seq ms rate (MSR) :20 FLAG CF weight :64 On Thu, 17 Jun 2021 at 15:56, Jack Zukt <jzuk...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > I am trying to extract information from SMS regarding all the storage > groups that are defined to one system and all of the associated information > for each of these storage groups, including the description, if there is > one. > As there more then a hundred storage groups defined,doing this using ISMF > display/listsys and copy/paste is error prone and a burdensome task. > Is there a way to do this with commands and/or batch? > Thanks for any help that you can provide > Jack > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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