Hi Ed,

Perhaps ISMF in batch?
NaviQuest utility I reckon it's called.

Potentially dumb question/suggestion - the 'expire non-usage days' or a related 
parm of the MC should automatically delete the dataset, right?

-KB

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On Thursday, November 4th, 2021 at 6:19 PM, Ed Jaffe 
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> We have some back-office utilities that would like to query a mainframe
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> DFSMS management class in order to drive off-platform functionality
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> based upon mainframe disciplines.
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> For example, we'd like to purge certain files that haven't been
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> referenced for more than the "Expire Non-Usage Days" value of a DFSMS
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> management class called CUSTDATA.
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> There does not seem to be any sort of z/OS DFSMS ACDS API nor can I find
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> an appropriate TSO or operator command that displays this information.
>
> What's the easiest way to query this data?
>
> Thanks in advance...
>
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