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
>
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