If you use SVC 99, you can query the dataset to find out what it
is. And then you can do SVC99 to allocate.
It will keep you busy for a while understanding the text units
and looking at control blocks....
Steve Thompson
On 12/14/2023 10:43 AM, Billy Ashton wrote:
Hey everyone! I have a little down time here at the end of the
year with our freeze, and I wanted to play with some ideas I
have had.
I would like to write a program that can open any kind of file
- PDS, Sequential, Panvalet, loadlib, and maybe even VSAM
components. I want to open the file in "raw" format, as if I
were going straight to the disk pack and scooping up the bytes
from the beginning of the allocation to the end.
Is there any way to do this without caring about the catalog
RECFM? Obviously, the easiest way is through some JCL parameter
that says "force as PS" but I doubt that is likely. I can't go
into more detail at present, sorry!
What do you think?
Thank you and best regards,
Billy Ashton
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