It's physically impossible to get PDSE information without allocating & opening it. The info is inside the dataset. It's somewhat parallel to classic PDS, where you have to read the dataset to get directory information.
It would be nice if PDSE recorded some of the info in the catalog or VVDS, but PDSEs do their own thing, working completely black-box. sas On Wed, Jan 29, 2020 at 7:47 AM Robin Atwood <abend...@gmail.com> wrote: > I voted! LISTDSI does indded return SYSDSVERSION and SYSMAXGENS but it > doesn't help in my situation (an assembler module). ISITMGD doesn't really > cut it for my requirement, you have to allocate and open a data set and it > only tells you if the PDSE supports generations. > > Robin > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On > Behalf Of Tom Conley > Sent: 29 January 2020 13:40 > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: PDSE V2 data set info > > On 1/28/2020 5:48 AM, Robin Atwood wrote: > > I have a requirement in my queue to include the PDSE Version and the > MAXGEN > > limit in the DSINFO report our server sends > > > > to workstation clients. I checked the F1 DSCB, IGGCSI00 output fields, > SMDEs > > and found nothing. Searching only produced Lionel Dyck's > > > > PGSEGEN utility but that works in an ISPF environment and can obtain the > > values from ISPF variables (ZDSDSNV, ZDSNGEN). I resorted to a brute > force > > search of SYS1.MACLIB and SYS1.MODGEN using "MAXG" but that only found > the > > DFA and some allocation support. Is > > > > this information actually publically available and, if so, can someone > tell > > me where? > > > > Robin, > > Vote for RFE 107052 and 107053. Been asking IBM for YEARS to support > the basics for PDSE's, still no dice. LISTDSI supposably will return > the PDSE version. Don't get me started. > > Regards, > Tom Conley > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
