On Monday 21 August 2006 13:28, Paul Schuster wrote: > Obviously IBM code is returning the number of directory blocks without > doing an OPEN and CLOSE on the data set.
Not necessarily. It could issue OPEN in KEY=ZERO,MODE=SUP which, if I'm not mistaken, bypasses SAF. > Hence my question on how to do the EXCP I/O (read) without doing OPEN > and CLOSE. That question has been answered. > Perhaps IBM has a undocumented system service to retrieve the # of > directory blocks allocated to a data set? I doubt it. -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
