Re: example assembler program to update via stow userdata in directory of pds

2013-10-30 Thread don isenstadt
Thanks to all.. I now have it working! I modified Dave's program and then called it from batch. Then I used linkmvs from a REXX to call it for each member that I wanted processed. No sense in doing all the string manipulation and file i/o in the assembler program .. at my age and skill level

Re: example assembler program to update via stow userdata in directory of pds

2013-10-29 Thread Thomas Berg
You can only update in the ISPF stats format with LMMSTATS. In this case I suppose there is a whole another format that is needed. Best Regards Thomas Berg ___ Thomas Berg Specialist zOS\RQM\IT Delivery SWEDBANK AB (Publ)

Re: example assembler program to update via stow userdata in directory of pds

2013-10-29 Thread Lizette Koehler
I found this thread from 1998 which references a 1996 thread: http://www.listserv.uga.edu/cgi-bin/wa?A2=ind9806L=rexxlistP=5824 With the following REXX. I think it might be adapted to the OP requirements. From what I understand it is the USERDATA that needs to be updated and saved. Does

Re: example assembler program to update via stow userdata in directory of pds

2013-10-29 Thread don isenstadt
Thanks Dave, I'll try to modify what you've sent me .. I don't know why the crlf got left out but that will be the easiest to fix and as I do that I will be reading the code. -don -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive

example assembler program to update via stow userdata in directory of pds

2013-10-28 Thread don isenstadt
hello, It has come down to this .. I have a product that is requiring me to save several hundred members in order to populate the pds directory entry with a 30 byte title .. so since the vendor can't provide me with a way to do it batch they suggested that I use the stow macro w/replace to

Re: example assembler program to update via stow userdata in directory of pds

2013-10-28 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:56:45 -0500, Dave Kreiss davekre...@gmail.com wrote: Don, here is a module which updates a PDS directory entries TTR but it can be used as a model to change any field. I can't remember where the length field is (probably it is in DIRFLAG in the sample) but I know it is in

Re: example assembler program to update via stow userdata in directory of pds

2013-10-28 Thread Itschak Mugzach
Whats wrong with a small rexx that uses lm utilities to create and set/update pds directory? Commands like lminit, lmmlist, lmmstat, etc.? ITschak בתאריך 29 באוק 2013 01:53, Paul Gilmartin paulgboul...@aim.com כתב: On Mon, 28 Oct 2013 16:56:45 -0500, Dave Kreiss davekre...@gmail.com wrote: