Thanks
Thank you and best regards,
Billy Ashton
Thanks a lot, Michael! This was the right nudge in the right direction,
and I was able to get my JCL set up and working great for both
Management and Data class listings. I especially like that I could
customize the reports to the columns that will be best for us...it saves
me having to write a Rexx or something to strip out the fields!
I appreciate your help with this, and look forward to digging into it
further to see what NaviQuest can do.
Billy
------ Original Message ------
From "Schmitt, Michael" <[email protected]>
To [email protected]
Date 6/4/2024 4:12:46 PM
Subject Re: Getting list of SMS class entries
You may know that you can use ISMF in ISPF to view and query SMS classes. You
can have it write the result to a file.
You can also run ISMF in batch. This interface is call NaviQuest.
It is fairly complicated to use. The documentation is in z/OS DFSMSdfp Storage
Administration Guide.
The basic idea is you run two batch ISPF steps. The first collects the data
from ISMF; essentially it is the same as if you were using the ISMF interface
with query parameters. This writes an ISPF table.
The second step creates a report from the ISPF table. You choose which columns
you want to report.
So the recommended procedure is to first get your query working in the ISPF
panels for ISMF. And then, if you want, you can create the batch job that
executes that same query.
I have an example of extracting management classes, if you're interested. I can
send that directly, it would get mangled by the listserv -- and it is 200 lines
of JCL.
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Hi all, this is a basic request, but I can't seem to find anything about
it and hope you can help this poor old soul!
I would like to be able to generate a list of SMS classes, data,
management, and storage classes, and the attributes with them, that I
could somehow parse in a Rexx program.
Is there a command or program I could run and redirect the output to
some sort of organized format file to get me this? For example, I would
like to find all the Data classes with a RECFM/LRECL of FB/4096 that is
also multi-volume or Management Classes with an expiration date < 90
days, etc.
How can I do that in a batch process I can run monthly?
Thank you and best regards,
Billy Ashton
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