Thanks Ron, I am familiar with COBOL, but the program to which I want to add this processing to is written in assembler.
C- Charles (Chuck) Hardee Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration EAS Information Technology Thermo Fisher Scientific 300 Industry Drive | Pittsburgh, PA 15275 Phone +1 (724) 517-2633 | Mobile +1 (412) 877-2809 | FAX: +1 (412) 490-9230 chuck.har...@thermofisher.com | www.thermofisher.com WORLDWIDE CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent of a system responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender and delete all copies. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of McCabe, Ron Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 12:26 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog Chuck, If you're familiar with COBOL you can write a COBOL program that will do what you want. We wrote a couple of COBOL programs that read the TMS dataset and provides reports for DR purposes. Thanks, Ron McCabe Mutual of Enumclaw -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Hardee, Chuck Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 6:19 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog Yes, I know, that is EXACTLY why I want to read the CA-1 tape library. I'm already getting the active cataloged tapes from the CSI call. I then use the VOLSER from those results to get more information from CA-1. What I'm looking for is how to read the CA-1 library and find all the tapes that match the GDG name I've been given. From there, I can get the information I need. I've read thru the CA-1 programming manual and, not being familiar with some of the terminology and concepts behind CA-1, things didn't quite gel with me. Since I posted my query this morning, I have had someone reply with information that has made some things come together with what I have read, but I now have other questions that I need to ask. Thanks for the feedback Mike. Chuck Charles (Chuck) Hardee Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration EAS Information Technology Thermo Fisher Scientific 300 Industry Drive | Pittsburgh, PA 15275 Phone +1 (724) 517-2633 | Mobile +1 (412) 877-2809 | FAX: +1 (412) 490-9230 chuck.har...@thermofisher.com | www.thermofisher.com WORLDWIDE CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: Dissemination, distribution or copying of this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended recipient, or an employee or agent of a system responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please inform the sender and delete all copies. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Mike Schwab Sent: Friday, February 12, 2016 9:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading the CA-1 Tape Catalog Until the tape is overwritten the scratched tapes will still be in the database. On Fri, Feb 12, 2016 at 5:17 AM, Hardee, Chuck <chuck.har...@thermofisher.com> wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have posted this to the IBM Mainframe and IBM Assembler lists. > > I was wondering if anyone has ever written a program to read the CA-1 Tape > Catalog for a generic name? > In a nutshell, what I am wanting to do is look up in the catalog all entries > for a GDG base name. > > Currently my program issues a call to the IBM Catalog Search Interface (CSI) > program, IGGCSI00, passing the GDG name and I get back all entries that are > currently cataloged. However, if I go to CA-1's TSO Inquiry panel and put in > the GDG name modified to have a low level qualifier of "-" (CA-1's equivalent > of "*"), I get back 621 entries. Since the GDG is defined to have 150 > entries, that's all I'll ever get, via MVS services. However, as can be seen, > there are more tapes available. > > I have read thru the CA-1 Tape Management Programming Guide, and there appear > to be numerous macros that can be used to access the catalog, but the > narratives for the macros leave something to be desired in the name of > clarity when one isn't a CA-1 expert. And, before you ask, yes, I have asked > CA-1 support for help but I am getting the run around from them. For whatever > reason, they just don't want to seem to help. It may be a level 1 protecting > level 2 situation, or it may just be they don't want to take the time to > educate the user community. Whatever the reason, I need to look for > alternative assistance. > > So, if anyone has a snippet or three of code to OPEN, READ and CLOSE the CA-1 > catalog looking for a dataset name, I would appreciate it if you would be > willing to share. > > Thanks in advance, > Chuck > > > Charles (Chuck) Hardee<mailto:chuck.har...@thermofisher.com> > Senior Systems Engineer/Database Administration EAS Information > Technology > > Thermo Fisher Scientific > 300 Industry Drive | Pittsburgh, PA 15275 Phone +1 (724) 517-2633 | > Mobile +1 (412) 877-2809 | FAX: +1 (412) 490-9230 > chuck.har...@thermofisher.com<mailto:chuck.har...@thermofisher.com> | > www.thermofisher.com > > WORLDWIDE CONFIDENTIALITY NOTE: Dissemination, distribution or copying of > this e-mail or the information herein by anyone other than the intended > recipient, or an employee or agent of a system responsible for delivering the > message to the intended recipient, is prohibited. 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