Transfer pads? Use SDS or equipment. These programs can read at a volume
level.
בתאריך שבת, 10 באפר׳ 2021 ב-16:12 מאת Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com>:
> Yes, that's what I meant, and I'm going to have to use the LM services
> anyway to transfer the PDSs so I may as well.
>
> (Technically I think I ~could~ use 3.4 in a REXX program. I've read
> (though
> I've never tried it) that one can run ISPF in batch, if one wants to go to
> the trouble of allocating all the necessary ISPF DDs. So I could probably
> write a REXX that allocates all those DDs, then exit ISPF and run the REXX
> from the READY prompt. Seems to me that'd be the very definition of going
> around my elbow to get to my thumb, though.)
>
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> Seymour J Metz
> Sent: Friday, April 9, 2021 16:42
>
> I don't beleive that you can use 3.4 in a REXX script.
>
> Do you mean LMDLIST? That is one of the ISPF services that ADDRESS ISPEXEC
> supports. The LMD..... services provide an easy way to process all of the
> datasets on a volume.
>
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> Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com]
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> Yeah, that's what I said: I would use LISTCAT, but it won't work on
> uncatalogued datasets. And I see I left something out: I'm writing a
> REXX.
> I can do it in 3.4, but there are too many datasets; I'm tired of doing it
> manually, especially as I suppose I'll need the process more than once.
>
> ...Although come to think of it I can use 3.4 in a REXX, too; DSLIST, is
> that the service? I don't think I've ever done that before, but I guess it
> would solve my problem.
>
> As I just told someone else, I've heard about CBT for years but never
> pulled
> anything from it: I assume clients will be reluctant (or more) to put
> unknown software on their expensive mainframes. I'm looking for plain
> vanilla tools.
>
> On the other hand, I've been at sites where they use certain CBT functions,
> and CBT is after all well known. Maybe if I ask my local systems
> programmer
> he'll say "sure, we don't mind using CBT stuff". Guess I should at least
> ask.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Of
> Seymour J Metz
> Sent: Friday, April 9, 2021 10:06
>
> That's not a LISTCAT function. There are lots of choices on the CBT tape,
> e.g., VTOC, and there's always ISPF 3.4.
>
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>
> I'm gonna kick myself, I just know I am, but if I know the answer to this
> already I can't dredge it up. I want to list all the datasets on a
> particular DASD volume. I'd use LISTCAT LVL('hlq'), but these are not
> catalogued. Where's the TSO command for that?
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