List datasets with 'HLQ.**'.

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.
>
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> Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
>
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