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Eric.C.Bakke · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 12:50 pm Post subject:

kolusu,

Thanks for edit capability.

I tested the program on both PDS and PDSE using Z/OS v1.9. I'm working on a new directory module that will provide in linkage the member name and additional attributes. I'll post that if anyone's interested in this.
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semigeezer · Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 4:38 pm Post subject:

If you need info for ISPF stats, you can see my exec at http://sillysot.com/ftp/mlrexx.txt

Kolusu. This should work fine for PDSE because an attempt to read a PDSE directory directly causes MVS to simulate a PDS directory and return records as if they were part of a real PDS directory. Good for compatibility, but for obvious reasons, it is much slower than reading the real thing, and you can't write a PDSE directory directly.
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Sreejith · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:13 pm Post subject:

Hi,
Did anyone successfully managed to use BPXWDYN to read PDS member ? I use the same code given above by Kolusu. It work for a dataset, but if I use a PDS it abends with 4072 and the return code from BPXWDYN is 0002M. The dataset I am using is PDS not a PDSE.

Any idea why I am getting this error.

Thanks
Sreejith

kolusu · Posted: Tue Nov 04, 2008 2:38 pm Post subject:

Sreejith · Posted: Wed Nov 05, 2008 8:34 am Post subject:

Thanks Kolusu. Problem solved.
Displayed PDS-lenght (after moving to 9(4)) and it was zeroes
I initialized PDS-String in the program and resulted in error. Supposed to initialize PDS-TEXT. The program is building PDS-TEXT from SYSIN.

jim haire · Beginner Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 140 Topics: 40

Kolusu,
You provided the example above which is greatly appreciated. I am doing something similar, although I am allocating new datasets (multiple datasets within the same run).

I am building the allocate statements via a COBOL STRING statement, taking the dataset names from an input file I am reading. My allocate statement looks like this:

jim haire · Beginner Joined: 30 Dec 2002 Posts: 140 Topics: 40

Never mind. I figured out what it was. I took one of your earlier posts and read the dataset being enclosed by two single quotes, when really it was a double quote.

To answer my own questions:
1. Yes, you should use a 01 level with a length when defining your application string for BPXWDYN.

2. The length of the string being passed to BPXWDYN can be longer than 100.
I'm not sure what the maximum length it can be. (Mine is 132).

kolusu · Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 11:30 am Post subject: