The point here is not what some particular routine oor utility may do or permit. It is what can be done ab initio by an programmer who wants to do it using the HLASM or some particular SLPL .
z/OS MVS does permit one to open a PDS as a PS data set in a routine written in assembly language or PL/I, and what one then gets with successive reads are its successive directory blocks. I have done this many times without incident, but I do not of course recommend it to novices. I have not myself done it in C; but Bernd Oppolzer is a careful, highly reliable reporter of his experience; and I am thus sure that it can be done in C too. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
