Sam: Thanks for the heads up and all the work that put in to replace the much needed utilities .
Ed > On Sep 8, 2016, at 8:10 AM, Sam Golob <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hi Folks, > > When you're making a new system or new catalogs, isn't it nice to generate > DEFINE statements for most of the stuff that's in there? Especially if it is > a new system and a new master catalog. OR, are you cleaning up the master > catalog to make sure there's no junk that got cataloged in there and was > never removed? > > Well, most of us remember (or still use) the MCNVTCAT program that IBM > used to distribute with the CBIPO's and CBPDO's. With MCNVTCAT, you get the > DEFINE statements for all NONVSAM entries in a catalog, and also you get an > indication of the VSAM stuff cataloged in there as well. BUT, IBM stopped > distributing MCNVTCAT. What were we to do? > > One person, Alastair Gray, did a lot. Alastair wrote a REXX program > called RCNVTCAT which does everything that MCNVTCAT did, but was easier to > use. RCNVTCAT is a public domain program, and is on File 542 of the CBT Tape. > > BUT, RCNVTCAT stopped working when SWA is above the line, for TSU's (set > in JOBCLASS(TSU) of JES2PARM if you have JES2). > > So, Lionel Dyck fixed RCNVTCAT to work (as a TSO command written in REXX) > so it works for SWA above the line. Also, Lionel's version allocates the > output pds (which contains the information) permanently, instead of the > temporary pds which the original RCNVTCAT generated. > > However, RCNVTCAT had a UNIX component with it, and we didn't know if it > worked or not. > > SO, John McKown did an extensive rework of the UNIX component in RCNVTCAT, > and now it works fine there too. > > How do you get all this fixed-up stuff? It is on CBT Tape File 542 on the > UPDATES page of www.cbttape.org. Lionel's version is called RCNVTCAT, and > John's souped up version is member SCNVTCAT. SCNVTCAT can work under TSO > giving the same results as RCNVTCAT. And SCNVTCAT also has John's extended > UNIX support. > > Cool. Use them in good health! > > Sincerely, Sam > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
