On Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:21:15 -0500, Steve Smith wrote: >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. > PDSE has enhanced sharing capabilities that make allocating it (SHR) and opening it less obstructive than classic PDS (although ISPF LMPUT seems to be unaware of that benefit.)
>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. > Catalog, VVDS, VTOC, data set -- it's all the same provided the information is available somewhere without interfering with other jobs. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
