OPEN and count is so easy that it's not worth while looking for alternatives unless you need to support PDSE. Is there a count option in DESREVE?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Kirk Wolf <k...@dovetail.com> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2019 11:40 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Best programming interface to get PDS max dir blocks? For an existing PDS, what's the best way to get this? Do you just have to open the directory and count? Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://secure-web.cisco.com/1uh3YoqUIQ8RgxewOxf4EpdczWFyeIHybpnSR5gFaWzL-dbKXwbPbRbANp-9RhEYtzXXA8LO76EcZSr6ZZaKXuc7T5DLHiL6TbUDI-bE2IDic-nZiymf6plZyKnjk75RyHRcLB7EhGwgmQ24r8ngIbgQlKqy4xk3jUmh4yEmXBE13K5hxINCaQvhwDkYCCN1k2_5jUckvoq0yL6LrXjLGbkJz2__D9jhFJy8Ogdy84XBcxzzm4csnF09HDUsB84N2uQqf2I0VL5D8eG3dXC6ROLdkJribOMiCsS0l_pgjrUDUTSWo8HOICVvxQzdHlZQgNxlx_5-9ielDm9IOqp5oVioxIO2lQ_3gHZejj8qBqM9x2PiYb70ONIkVROWF01t8COmPHpHVCIGDDJ_71i9xGwHXVoPNm9F2apvgiW83hQ-22B8KOhsSGzoRPx2TH5Pi/http%3A%2F%2Fdovetail.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
