HI Roger, The PDS command as I remember it from 40 years ago did a lot more than scanning. It had lots of other capabilities, Some of them were updating (IIRC) link date, SSI, and fixed alias issues and about 10 other things. I think it is still on the CBTAPE still. My memory was from 40 years ago but I am sure at that time it did not support Panvalet. I played around with it for about a week and was not to impressed at the time. It may or may not have been updated in the last 40 years. I tried to get a programmer interested in it but he was not impressed. Ed
> Begin forwarded message: > > From: Roger Bolan <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: What is the PDS command? > Date: December 15, 2023 at 6:11:25 PM CST > To: [email protected] > Reply-To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > It's all built into ISPF nowadays. I would suggest that it is worth your > time to go through the ISPF Tutorial every time you get a new release. On > my systems the main ISPF panel has an option 11 for Workplace ISPF > Object/Action Workplace. You can also get to by the ISPF command DSLIST. > You can list datasets, append other datasets and save any lists you want. > I construct lots of lists for different projects. Once I am displaying the > datasets in my list, I can use the SRCHFOR command to search inside all the > libraries in my list. I can exclude libraries with the X (EXCLUDE) primary > command if I need to. I have the options for SRCHFOR set to default to > searching only the non-excluded libraries. So, for example, if I want to > search through a list of 30 JCL libraries for all members that use AMBLIST, > it's easy. > > On Fri, Dec 15, 2023 at 4:51 PM Paul Feller <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Greetings Bob, >> >> I was looking through my old JCL library and ran across several examples of >> scans using ISRSUPC. Depending on what you want to do you could try >> ISRSUPC. If you have access to JOBSCAN you could try it. If you client >> has >> DAF, you can use that to scan SMF records to see if any executing jobs are >> touch the dataset. >> >> >> //SEARCH02 EXEC PGM=ISRSUPC,PARM=('SRCHCMP,ANYC,LPSF') >> >> //NEWDD DD DSN=D0PCPN.JCLLIB.CA7PROD,DISP=(SHR,KEEP,KEEP) >> >> // DD DSN=D0PCPN.JCLLIB.OVERRIDE,DISP=(SHR,KEEP,KEEP) >> >> // DD DSN=D0PCPN.JCLLIB.ALTERNAT,DISP=(SHR,KEEP,KEEP) >> >> // DD DSN=D0PCPN.JCLLIB.FREEZE,DISP=(SHR,KEEP,KEEP) >> >> // DD DSN=D0PCPN.JCLLIB.ABEND,DISP=(SHR,KEEP,KEEP) >> >> //OUTDD DD SYSOUT=X >> >> //SYSIN DD * >> >> SRCHFOR 'UNIT=TAPE' >> >> /* >> >> >> Paul >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf >> Of >> John Pratt >> Sent: Friday, December 15, 2023 5:09 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: What is the PDS command? >> >> Hi Bob, >> >> If I remember correctly =3.14 has a batch option and you can concatenate >> all >> your JCL libraries into the generated job. >> >> John. >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf >> Of >> Bob Bridges >> Sent: Saturday, 16 December 2023 8:55 AM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: What is the PDS command? >> >> Long ago I wrote - I'm pretty sure I wrote - a REXX exec that would do a >> 3.14 search through multiple libraries for a character string. I'm looking >> for it now, and I find one in my archives that uses the PDS command to do >> the search. >> >> But what's the PDS command? I've a strong suspicion that I wrote this at a >> client that had a popular CBTTAPE utility, and if so it's not appropriate >> for my current location. Can someone confirm? >> >> If you care, what I really want to do is search through a list of JCL >> libraries for certain DSN fragments. There's a job we're probably going to >> shut down, and I want to be sure the datasets it produces are not used >> anywhere else in production. >> >> --- >> Bob Bridges, [email protected], cell 336 382-7313 >> >> /* "Bother", said the Borg, "we've assimilated a Pooh". */ >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email >> to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email >> to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN >> > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
