2008/4/15 McKown, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I am writing a TSO command processor. One option is to direct output to > a dataset. In support of this, for new datasets, I would like to support > the parms LIKE(existing.ds.name) and USING(attr-list).
Good idea! > I can see the DALLIKE key for the LIKE parameter. I cannot see anything > that relates > to the USING(). I can find something in IKJDAIR for USING() but not for > LIKE(). From reading about the ATTRIB command in the TSO/E book, it > seems that this creates a DD statement with the given name. Does this > mean that I should use the DALDCBDD key to implement USING(...)? I was thinking you'd use DALDCBDS to take DCB info from a DSNAME, and DALDCBDD to take it from a DDNAME. Neither of these copies space allocation info. I'm not sure what DALLIKE is for; GDGs maybe? Or maybe it copies allocation info for SMS? Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
