Radoslaw,

Have you mistyped there? I really don't think PDSE is 40 years old. That would 
mean it was around in 1979. In 1979 we were still working on a 16MB system. We 
did not even have cross memory services, that came in with MVS/SP 1.2.

I joined IBM in 1996 and worked in the support centre for a while. We were 
dealing with early problems with PDSE then. So I think PDSE may be older than 
25 years.

Or have I misunderstood?

Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw | Security Lead | RSM Partners Ltd  
‘Dance like no one is watching. Encrypt like everyone is.’

-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of R.S.
Sent: 12 December 2019 17:14
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Looking for a utility to create a master listing of all 
PDS members on a system

W dniu 2019-12-11 o 17:01, Paul Gilmartin pisze:
> On Wed, 11 Dec 2019 10:40:33 -0500, Don Leahy wrote:
>
>> I have a rexx program that reads in a list of data set names and / or 
>> masks and creates a “master” member list consisting of all of the PDS/E 
>> members
>> found in the data sets.   The output is a file containing the member name,
>> the DSN, last update date (from ISPF stats, if available) and the 
>> number of lines in the member.
>>
> Grrr...
> FAMS keeps timestamps for PDSE members with microsecond precision.
> The interface spec is available for a price, perhaps NDA.
>
> It boggles the mind that a vendor would keep customers' file 
> timestamps secret.

It's both: funny and annoying. PDSE is almost 40 years old, AFAIK and many 
features of it is still secret, not in use, etc. Note, it's not discussion 
about source code, it is about really basic features.
I can't imagine any reason to keep it secret.

--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland




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