For NONVSAM LISTDSI may work, for VSAM CSI will work. And CSI returns the VOLUMES, RBA, and any other catalog information for both VSAM and NONVSAM. Including if it spans multi volumes. If you look at my other postings on CSI you will see that IBM has provided other samples to show how to extract those fields. For NON Vsam datasets LISTDSI may only show first volumes, not if it spans multi volumes.
If you do a LISTC against a dataset and it shows all the volumes, then the CSI will be able to retrieve those for you. The following version of CSI Rexx I came across is much better than the SYS1.SAMPLIB version. However, the enhancement you need is to loop through all the volumes for the dataset. In the SYS1.SAMPLIB Version it only does one even if there are more. It would be a simple matter to continue until the end of the volumes was found. And for those that want a better interface to CSI, I came across this gem on the IBM Website ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/dfsms/II14316/II14316.clist.clist or tinyurl http://tinyurl.com/chqotev I have not tried it yet, but apar II14316: A NEW TOOL IS AVAILABLE TO INVOKE THE CSI (CATALOG SEARCH INTERFACE) VIA REXX. Has some interesting context about making this easier to use. Lizette > > Dear Lizette, > > thanks for your fast response. I was already aware of the CSI, I used it in > other REXX > procedures to search for some datasets similar to ISPF 3.4. But AFAIK CSI > only gives > the name of a dataset, but no other attributes (size etc.). In the case I#m > talking > about now, I already have the name, but I'm looking for other attributes, > mainly the > size of these non-VSAM multi-volume files. Because they are multi-volume > LISTDSI > doesn't work, because they are non-VSAM LISTCAT doesn't help although. > > > Am 08.09.2012 00:58, schrieb Lizette Koehler: > > Yes, you can use the Catalog Search Interface (CSI) to do this. > > > > There is documentation in z/OS V1R12.0 DFSMS Managing Catalogs > > > > And a sample in SYS1.SAMPLIB(IGGCSIRX) > > > > > > Lizette > > > > -- > Freundliche Gruesse / Kind regards > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
