Wow. Everyone is being helpful. I am making a temporary ("one shot") tool to help with a different problem that might involve dataset locations on DASD. Was thinking of reading the VTOC directly versus picking fields out of a IEHLIST DUMP listing. At the moment I am going with the IEHLIST listing because it nicely lists the FORMAT3 material right after the associated FORMAT1.
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