I am a cross-platform kind of guy. So if I had this task, I would do it as follows: (1) Use ISPF 3.1 to generate the member lists for all the libraries. (2) FTP the member list files to my Windows PC. (3) Write a little VB.Net program to scan the member list reports and build comma-separated-value (CSV) files containing the information extracted from the reports. The column list would include DSNAME, MEMBER NAME, TTR, CREATION DATE, LAST CHANGE DATE, LINE COUNT, USERID, etc. (4) Import the CSV files into a database table. This could be MS ACCESS, ORACLE, MS SQL, etc. (5) Write some SQL queries to compare the table rows. Ultimately you want to have a query that lists all the member names and shows the library name containing the most current version.
I do things like this all the time. It would probably take me 4 hours to put it all together, much less than the time to do it using my tired eyes. Others could probably do it with REXX or SORT or even EXCEL, perhaps in less time. But I don't do REXX and I am far from being a master at SORT. John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
