On Thu, 19 Mar 2015 18:43:45 -0500, Dale R. Smith <[email protected]> wrote:
> >If you are not adverse to chasing MVS control blocks from COBOL code, (instead >of using a system interface like RDJFCB), then take a look at some sample >COBOL code written by Gilbert Saint-Flour at the bottom of this page: >http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ > >In particular, COB2JOB and COB2SYS. > I don't think you can safely get dsnames for allocated ddnames just by chasing control blocks. That _can_ work with if the system is configured to have SWA below the line, but I wouldn't want to count on having that configuration in effect. As soon as you have SWA above the line I think you have to use SWAREQ or some other system service to do at least part of the processing. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
