OK, thanks. I thought I had seen something about it being for 6.4, but obviously not.
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Schmitt, Michael Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2024 3:18 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Broadcom/CA Easytrieve That's for reading the r11 options table. It doesn't exist in version 6.4. For those who are interested... There are many versions of Easytrieve... the original (?) version, and ones for Unix, Windows, CICS, etc. But they had inconsistent syntax and capabilities. Version r11 was an attempt to unify the versions, so the same syntax could be used in all. But at a cost! It broke existing programs. So r11 can be run in two modes: New Function mode is the new stuff, Compatibility Mode (aka legacy mode) runs the same as version 6.4. But r11 in compatibility mode still reads the r11 options table, else how does it know it should be in compatibility mode and not use the option table it just read? New Function mode is generally better, except that I/O performance is *much* worse. For a dumb reason. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Pommier, Rex Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2024 3:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Broadcom/CA Easytrieve Here's another one - supposedly. We don't have EZTrieve... Looks like the READFILE option might give you what you need. The following code is z/OS site option update JCL: //jobname JOB accounting.info //UPDATE EXEC PGM=ETOPLOAD //STEPLIB DD DSN=EZT.loadlib,DISP=SHR //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=A //OUTPUT DD SYSOUT=A //EZOPTBL DD DSN=your.EASYTRIEVE.EZOPTBL ,DISP=SHR, //SYSUT2 DD DISP=(,CATLG),DSN=EZT.option.output, // SPACE=(TRK,(1,1),RLSE), //SYSIN DD * Site Option Update Cards /* // Submitting a Run of ETOPLOAD Using JCL This section describes how to update the Easytrieve options table on the mainframe using the ETOPLOAD program through batch JCL. There are two utility functions available for use with the batch update program, ETOPLOAD. These utility functions are not necessary for updating an existing options table. To use these functions, the command would be specified for the SYSIN instead of the Options Update cards. Create File The Create File command rebuilds the site options with the default values supplied with Easytrieve . follow these steps: CREATEFILE Read File The Read File command reads the existing site options and writes the records to an output file. This output file can be used later to rebuild your site options after installing a new version of Easytrieve or if your site options are destroyed. follow these steps: READFILE READFILE must be the first record in the input file. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Schmitt, Michael Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2024 3:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: Broadcom/CA Easytrieve Ooh, I know this one! If you're still using Easytrieve Plus 6.4 then you're using the old options table. (This options table is also used in r11 in "compatibility mode"). To dump it, run this JCL: //JS010 EXEC PGM=EZTPX15 //OPT DD DUMMY, // RECFM=FB,LRECL=80 //SYSPRINT DD * If you're in r11 it gets a lot more complicated to view the options. You can have a table (in a completely different format) that is full of options, except one of those options tells it to ignore ALL THE OTHER OPTIONS and instead use the old method. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of rpinion865 Sent: Tuesday, July 23, 2024 2:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Broadcom/CA Easytrieve I need to determine what are the Easytrieve options we have. This is a very old version, 6.4, and the people and libraries used for the install are long gone. Seems like I remember that you could run something to list the installed options. "Confidentially doc, I am the wabbit." 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