On Thu, 19 Jun 2008 15:01:01 -0500, Cathy Taddei <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>I've got a clist performing LISTDSI on a dd name to see if it is allocated. >Unfortunately, this doesn't work if the file is allocated to VIO. Is there an >alternative to LISTDSI that will tell whether a ddname is allocated? > What about (TSO) LISTALC STATUS? What exactly is the problem / issue? I ask, because I ran into a problem with VIO and IPLINFO using LISTDSI a while back. I changed my ISPF panel data set to a temp PDS and then used LISTDSI to find the DDNAME so I could write to it with REXX EXECIO. This failed in some environments that changed the allocation to VIO (via SMS rules). I then changed the allocation of the library to PDSE and that worked in some environments that checked for PDSE and didn't try to allocated it to VIO. But since PDSE can't be in VIO, it failed in other environments. Eventually I did it the correct way and used ISPF services (LM*) to write to the temp PDS (as opposed to EXECIO). 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 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
