First: You catalog all of your tape datasets I hope. Second: No one mentioned the 'TI' (Tape Inquiry) command shipped with later versions of CA-1? It can be used as a line command in ISPF 3.4 and gives you information about those datasets and some info about the volumes.
Third: I wrote a TAPELIST command once - dealing with the complex multi-volume multi-file situation isn't fun. I think my program is correct (back when some CA-1 source was shipped I tried to compare it to CA's source for reporting in such a situation) but I always had nagging doubts. Fourth: If you have MXG it has members to read TMC info (in SAS) and put it in a PDB. Fifth: In answer to Russ Witt's query, I think more and more people want some sort of query-able interface to all of their system management data, and they seem to either want SQL or XML. My ideal (and this is just my personal opinion) would be for CA-1 to supply DB2 UDFs (User-Defined Functions) that would read CA-1 information and return a relational result set. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
