On Sat, 18 Oct 2025 09:44:17 +0300, Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> wrote:
> Look at the program (rexx) as a way to get multiple datasets > attributes without accessing each of them to get the attributes. You never described what problem you are solving and we can't make sense of the solution you are proposing. From what you say here, I can only assume you want to use batch ISPF 3.4. ISPF (except panel services) happily runs in batch TSO. //BATCHTSO JOB //TSO EXEC PGM=IKJEFT1B,PARM='ISPSTART CMD(%MYEXEC arguments)' //SYSTSIN DD DUMMY //SYSTSOUT DD SYSOUT=* /* REXX MYEXEC */ ADDRESS ISPEXEC "LMDINIT LEVEL(SYS1)" "LMD###" /* process the dataset list >The problem is the disk space and cpu sized that are insufficient. >We plan for click and set an environment >that might not exist in next IPL (even on same day). I assume your problem is limited disk space and you will have an FTP server with permanent copies of all datasets. Have you considered NFS or NAS? You could use XMIT and IBMTERSE but I don't think they support VSAM files. DFDSS supports all file types but beware of blocksize. Beware of backup to tape because it defaults to extra-large block size. For best results, you may want to use half track size matching your new system which guarantees future disk changes won't make these files unusable and they won't cause disk usage problems on a system that is already disk constrained. When disk metrics on the new system change, you may want to consider reblocking your large and most used files. Look at CBTTAPE.ORG to see if there is some other portable method. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
