I guess, like usual, I did not give enough details in my original post. But you are correct, Gil, I was wanting this feature in "JCL only". So anything programmatic would not work (at least not with a lot more effort and changes than I am wanting). Thanks for all ideas. This would have been more of a nice to have than anything. ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Friday, April 6, 2018 2:20 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Finding a member in a DD concatenation
On Fri, 6 Apr 2018 14:45:47 -0500, John McKown wrote: > >What would be nice would be if IBM were to build a callable service around >this function and put it in as part of LE so that it could be used by any >of IBM's HLLs. > In assembler, the FIND macro does much of this. In ISPF services, LMMFIND does much of this. And you mentioned IEBCOPY. What are IEBCOPY's restrictions on concatenations? It would be nice if there were a general service for this. Some programmers would prefer that it not require LE. The OP wanted the function in JCL. This would require new syntax. UNIX has a similar lack. Many utilities rely on a colon-separated list of directory paths (PATH, MANPATH, XFILESEARCHPATH, CLASSPATH, ...), but I believe there's no uniform service to open a member from such a string. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
