Use LISTCAT ENT(alias-name) ALIAS On Fri, May 12, 2023 at 10:24 AM Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking at a profile in Top Secret with a bunch of permissions to user > HLQs that I suspect are no longer around, some of them at least. I plan to > write a REXX that'll identify the ones for which there are no datasets, or > only a TSO alias. > > I thought to use LISTCAT for that, but I'm running into a problem. I don't > use LISTCAT all that often, but I thought this would work: > > LISTCAT LEVEL(XXX) > > That nets me the same message whether or not an alias is present: > > ENTRY XXX. NOT FOUND+ > ** XXX NOT LISTED > LASTCC=4 > ** VSAM CATALOG RETURN CODE IS 8 > > But I want to distinguish whether or not there's an alias. Ok, so I should > add the ALIAS argument, right? > > LISTCAT LEVEL(XXX) ALIAS > > But that gets me the exact same response, whether or not an alias is > present. What am I missing, here? > > And when I test that command on my own ID - I have both a TSO alias and > some > datasets - the screen blinks and comes back without giving me any response > at all! Most strange. Am I broken? Is LISTCAT broken? Surely it's > something basic I've misunderstood about LISTCAT. > > --- > Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 > > /* I know everyone thinks Republicans aren't funny. But if you get a bunch > of us together, we can be a real riot. -Nancy Mace at Washington Press > Club > */ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Michael Babcock OneMain Financial z/OS Systems Programmer, Lead ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
