Hi Ed,
You and your programmer were not impressed?!
How can you not be impressed by the ability to add Directory Blocks (by
moving members out of the way), the ability to generate JCL to LinkEdit
PDS members, the ability to copy members (with ISPF Stats) or the
ability to recover deleted members (with selection criteria)?
(There are a lot more features.)
SMH.
(I've been using the PDS Command Processor (File 182) for more than 40
years.)
Regards,
David
On 2023-12-27 04:58, Edward Gould wrote:
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
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From: Roger Bolan <rogerbo...@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: What is the PDS command?
Date: December 15, 2023 at 6:11:25 PM CST
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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 <prjfeller1...@gmail.com> 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
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John Pratt
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2023 5:09 PM
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
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.
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Bob Bridges
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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.
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