My apologies for my first post on this issue. It was shoot from the lip and sloppy to boot. Option 3.4 or DSLIST is a HUGE, COMPLEX and POWERFUL ISPF component. Truely mastering it requires reading at least 100 pages from the User Guide volumes. The PDS member list component is even worse. Mastering them will often leave your coworkers in shock and awe. The block delete list command is //d ... ... ... // The correct command from z/OS ISPF User's Guide Volume I Version 2 Release 3 Page 77 is DSLIST (or 3.4 off the POP) ►► DSLIST list name DSname level ►◄ Enables you to build a data set list from any command line. You can specify either a personal data set list name or a data set list name level on the command. If you do not put quotation marks around the dsname level, the TSO prefix is used as the first qualifier in the dsname level. By issuing the command with no parameters, you cause a list of available personal data set lists to be displayed. The DSLIST command, which invokes ISRDSLST, accepts system symbols in the parameter. For example: DSLIST ’SYS2.**.&SYSPLEX’
and from Volume II Page 146 Volume serial Use this field to specify the volume serial whose VTOC is to be used by ISPF to display or print a list of data set names or VTOC information. ISPF retains the information you put in this field and displays it the next time you use this panel. If you want to display a list of only the data sets that reside on a particular volume, leave the Dsname Level field blank and enter the volume serial in the Volume field. The Volume serial field supports the inclusion of system symbols. You can enter a single volume name or a generic volume name to list data sets from more than one volume. The volume name can be partially specified using asterisks as global volume name characters and percent signs as placeholders in the volume name. A single asterisk within a volume name indicates that zero or more characters can occupy that position. A single percent sign indicates that any one alphanumeric or national character can occupy that position. Examples follow. * Lists data set names matching the Dsname Level from all volumes PRM* Lists names from all volumes beginning with 'PRM' M%C* Lists names from volumes beginning with 'M', followed by any single character, a 'C', and any three other characters (DSname and Volume serial can be used together) Data set list utility (option 3.4) Chapter 5. Utilities (option 3) 165 Data set list utility line commands This section documents the line commands that you can enter in the Data Set List Utility when a data set list is displayed. For information on the line commands that you can enter in the Data Set List Utility when a member list is displayed, see the information about Using Member Selection Lists and Library and Data Set List Utility Line Commands in the ISPF Libraries and Data Sets topic in z/OS ISPF User's Guide Vol I. After you display a data set list by leaving the Option field blank, you can enter a line command to the left of the data set name. You can also enter TSO commands, CLIST names, or REXX exec names. If a '>' is used before the CLIST or REXX exec name, the parameters passed to the command are not translated to upper case. The z/OS UNIX commands OGET and OPUT can be entered and the parameters are also not translated to upper case. The slash ( / ) character, which can be used with TSO commands, CLISTs, and REXX EXECs, can also be used with the B (browse data set), CO (copy data set), D (delete data set), E (edit data set), M (display member list), MO (move data set), and V (view data set) line commands to specify a member name or a pattern. You can type over the field containing the data set name to enter commands that require more than the space provided. For more information about using this symbol, see “Using the slash ( / ) character” on page 158. For more information about member name patterns, see the details about Displaying Member Lists in the “ISPF Libraries and Data Sets” chapter in the z/OS ISPF User's Guide Vol I. You can also enter line commands in block command format to execute the same line command for several data sets at once. You mark the block by typing a "//" at the beginning of a block of rows and another "//" at the end of the block of rows. You must type the line command either immediately after the // on the first row of the block, or immediately after the // on the last row of the block. You can enter several blocks of commands at the same time, but you cannot nest them. Single line commands are not allowed within a block command. You can execute all line commands, including TSO commands, Clists and REXX execs as block | | Above scarcely scratches the dust much less the paint. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
