Hi Al,
"...You need to run through VTOC entries to find any datasets that may
be uncatalogued ..."
For Uncatalogued Datasets, you can use:
- DCOLLECT by VOLSER )with masking)
- VTOC CP (CBT File 112) with masking. (If you want JCL samples, please
PM me).
Regards,
David
On 2023-05-16 09:45, Al Ferguson wrote:
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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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.
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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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