SVC 99, also known as DYNALLOC, is an awesome tool and works just great but becoming conversant with the whole control block/bit flags/text unit structure is unfortunately something of a learning project of its own.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Savor, Thomas (Norcross) Sent: Monday, October 05, 2015 11:45 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How the determine dataset is PDSE >I *think* (too involved in something else to open the manuals) that SVC 99 >information retrieval will give you this information for an open or not open >DD name. Ok, I think I see DSNTYPE field can be returned from DYNALLOC....if I can figure TEXT UNITS fields properly....wow. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
