> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf > Of Jacky Bright > Sent: Wednesday, 25 November 2009 7:49 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Extracting GDG Base > > Business Operation Department has requested to extract all GDG base dataset > names from the system. Is there any utility by which I can have these > details from the catalog ? > > Jacky
Are you licensed for Innovation Data Processing's ABR or FDREPORT products? If so there's a very simple FDREPORT job that will get the information you need using the following control cards: ********** * * Job extracts GDG base information from the system catalogs. * Currently it takes about 74 seconds to extract the data * from 295,040 GDG base records residing in a catalog structure * containing 1.663 million entries. * ********** SUMMARY FIELD=DSN /* summarize entries processed */ REPORT FIELD=(GDGBASE, /* gdg base name */ GDGENTRY, /* active entry count */ GDGLIMIT, /* active entry limit */ GDGFLAGS, /* processing flags */ GDGLADAT) /* last altered date */ PRINT DATATYPE=CATALOG, /* process system catalogs */ ENABLE=GDGBASEONLY /* select only GDG base names */ Stephen Mednick Computer Supervisory Services Sydney, Australia Asia/Pacific representatives for Innovation Data Processing, Inc. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html