On Tue, 24 Jul 2007 09:13:55 -0400, Earnie Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I am in need of a fairly straightforward method of turning a PDS into a >flat file (for modifications) and then back into a PDS. Having the >original ISPF stats present in the final PDS is not necessarily a critical >part of the process for us --- nice, but not absolutely necessary. > >I have an REXX exec that does the process, but it is not set up to run as a >batch job. Would that it were ... sigh. > >I have come across the CBT FILE093 solution(s) --- but, there appear to be >many varieties. > >Some assistance/suggestions, please? > > Well, you can unload the PDS using IEBPTPCH, do your updates using whatever programming method you want and create IEBUPDTE output to feed back into IEBUPDTE. I have done that in the past. But are you sure you need to go though all that trouble? If you are looking to "mass update" you can use PDS86 from the CBT file or if your updates are a little more complicated you can create an ISPF edit macro to do it and run it against all members of the PDS in batch (see EDMACALL on my web site). Both methods can preserve and / or update the ISPF stats. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
