I thought that the program to copy a dataset was IDCAMS. IEHMOVE? IEBCOPY? The COPY command from COPY, FORMAT, LIST and MERGE (sic)?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> Sent: Friday, June 14, 2019 12:17 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Need for a z/OS "master index" (Was RE: LOAD/LINK exit) Yes! I remembered this exit being added to z/OS. I looked and looked and looked at Installation Exits and when I could not find it, figured I must have read more into CSVLLIXn than really existed. z/OS desperately needs some sort of "master index." IBM has the AI to be able to put up a site that could answer questions like "how do I monitor every FETCH or LOAD?" (or, for that matter, "how do I convert RECFM=U into RECFM=V?"). The platform really needs it. How often do we see questions here where the answer is "it's right in the manual! RTFM you dummy!" The problem is "how would I know to look in that manual?" My favorite example: if you were new to this platform, how would you ever guess that the tool to copy a file (oops, dataset) was named IEBGENER and was documented in a manual named "DFSMSdfp Utilities"? Wouldn't it be great if a newbie could just go "Watson! How do I copy a file?" Just as an experiment, I just keyed "how copy a z/OS file" into KC and got lots of hits, but not one of them was for IEBGENER. Changing file to dataset at least gets me close: the fourth hit is for pervasive encryption and IEBGENER. Maybe we just need to learn to use KC more. You know what? I keyed the original question, "how monitor every fetch and load" into KC and the very first hit was for CSVFETCH. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Jim Mulder Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 8:27 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: LOAD/LINK exit CSVLLIX1 works only for LLA-managed libraries. I was still looking for the more comprehensive CSVFETCH exit, which was added in z/OS 2.2. Perhaps we should consider mentioning CSVFETCH in the MVS Installation Exits book, with a pointer to the book where CSVFETCH is documented. Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test IBM Corp. Poughkeepsie NY ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
