Mike,
Another solution might be to use a REXX EXEC that is in CBT FILE960, called
LISTDS (or maybe LISTDSI). It uses the Catalog Search Interface, and depending
on the options it can look for Files and Aliases at the same time. The CSI
takes various parameters, documented in the help section, to search for:
VSAM Clusters & components
GDGs
ALIAS
Datasets
It can provide quite a bit of detail on the dataset.
The downside of either the LISTDSI TSO Function, or the CSI, is they only
return information on CATALOGed Datasets. You need to run through VTOC entries
to find any datasets that may be uncatalogued (I did a similar project when
cleaning up a shops security database in the past, and they were big users of
uncatalogued datasets!).
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Dulcius ex Asperis
> On May 16, 2023, at 07:57, Bob Bridges <robhbrid...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Mike, you've succinctly restated my goal in English. What I'm asking is how
> to achieve the goal in LISTCATese.
>
> In the end I followed the advice of a few others, and did the LISTCAT twice,
> once with ENT then again with LEV; that tells me about the alias AND any
> datasets. Since this was a cleanup effort, I also (which has nothing to do
> with the below question) pulled info from Top Secret about each associated
> ACID, ie whether it existed and if so when it was last used. That gave me a
> nice neat list of what needs to be cleaned up and what should be left alone.
>
> ---
> Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313
>
> /* The Piper Cub is the safest airplane in the world; it can just barely kill
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On Behalf Of
> Mike Schwab
> Sent: Monday, May 15, 2023 19:32
>
> 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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