Apologies, but I have not been able to respond to this thread for a couple of days - my attention was diverted on to something that was deemed to be more important.
I've finally arrived at a solution for the problem that suits my purposes - a sequence of (1) IEBPTPCH to serialise PDS members, (2) a REXX to modify that serial file and then (3) IEBUPDTE takes the REXX output to build a new PDS. Thanks to all that responded to my query - all is under control, now Sean On 26 June 2018 at 21:48, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > Poor integration with native MVS is only one of the problems. There are a > lot of facilities that most Eunix sites have that are not required for > certification, and IBM has not done well by them. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf > of Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2018 4:45 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ICEGENER to the rescue again? > > On Tue, 26 Jun 2018 19:58:08 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > >Well, youngster, Eunix <g> certainly has egregious faults, but it also > has its good points. Alas, IBM took a minimalist approach to porting it to > MVS. > > > I understand CMS integrates OpenExtensions and CMS commands more closely on > the command line. I haven't had an opportunity to try it. I suspect il a > les défauts > de ses qualités. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
