One solution is to call BPXWDYN to alloc the dataset. If success it exist, otherwise not (depending on the error code of course...).
Regards, Thomas Berg __________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist IT-U SWEDBANK > -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] För Jim McAlpine > Skickat: den 20 maj 2009 15:51 > Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Ämne: checking for the existence of a file in batch REXX > > We have a REXX program which is called from COBOL in batch in > which we need to check for the existence of a file. > Obviously there is no TSO environment here so no commands > like LISTDS. Is there anyway to acheive this without the TSO > environment. > > Jim McAlpine > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access > instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the > message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at > http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
