AMASPZAP changes 'FORMAT4.DSCB' to 44x'04'; I don't know of any other IBM routine that looks for that name, although there are probably lots on the CBT tape. If you're writing a program then there are better ways to access the VTOC than opening 44'X04'.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Bill Ogden <og...@us.ibm.com> Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2019 11:44 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: VTOC reading My old memory is failing in too many areas. Long ago, I seem to recall, there was an easy way to read a VTOC with simple JCL using a "magic" DSNAME ----- obviously not 040404... for JCL, but some other name. Is my memory correct? What is the DSNAME? While playing with google I cannot find anything, but I might be using the wrong search words. Bill Ogden ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
