On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 04:26:41 +0000, saul anthony babonas wrote: >I've been following this discussion with some belated interest. Years ago I >cooked up something dirt simple to turn a PDS into a SD file using the TSO >print command. It wasn't very elegant but it got the job done at low cost. > SD? Like a USB flash card?
>-------- Original message -------- >From: Edward Gould >Date: 6/16/2016 9:19 PM (GMT-08:00) > >There are many peculiarities with IEBPTPCH. Like it doesn�t output in member >sequence (I vaguely remember that it is TTR sequence (but could be wrong). > Indeed. While testing, I created a member, AAA* so it would be first. It appeared last. Optimize seek movement. First read the directory. Sort in TTR order. FIND each member. Great idea if you're the only job using the device. >The control card format is anything but intuitive I am iffy here but IIRC you >must specify maxflds (why I have no clue) I hated the damn program myself as I >had to relearn the control cards all the time. > IEBGENER has something similar. I guessed it's to know how much working storage to GETMAIN. I just used a big number and suitable REGION. It should have stayed in the 20th Century. Today, I think I'd NFS mount my PDS on Solaris and use "pax". But IEBGENER will create aliases. I don't think it would work to NFS mount on Solaris and use "ln". -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
