Actually have you looked at ISMF? It does pretty much that already. Lizette
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf > Of Gary Snider > Sent: Monday, December 17, 2012 7:57 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Is it possible to write an exit for ADRDSSU to capture backup > information? > > Thanks for all the replies. I am evaluating the idea of providing an ISPF > dialog for > generation of restore jobs. I would need to capture the information required > to list > available backups for a dataset and generate the restore JCL. One option is > to parse > the backup output using the SDSF REXX interface, but there is the possibility > of failure > when IBM changes the output format and messages. We do not have the REXX > compiler so performance is also a concern. So, I was wondering if and exit > might be > more efficient approach. I am not too concerned about supporting the exit as > we have > multiple associates on our team that are capable. My main concern was the > availability > and complexity of devloping such an exit. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
