On Fri, 9 Jul 2010 10:21:03 -0500, Brian Peterson wrote: >> >>>paul: >>>This behavior of >>>"vsam" has been around for years. What you need to do is to exclude index >& data has existed since day one of vsam. >>>Ed > >I think Ed is referring to the EXCLUDE command. This may or may not provide >what you are looking for. > Thanks. I tried it. As you feared, after excluding the .INDEX and .DATA components the cluster component still sorts far away from its correct creation date.
I had suspected the reason is that no creation date is available for the cluster component, but experiment shows that's not true. Typing 'I' in the DSLIST display, then "History" shows the correct creation date. It's just a bug; low quality implementation. Can the EXCLUDE pattern be anchored, effective only at the beginning of the DSNAME, or only at the end? Where's regular expressions when I need them? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
