Hi Folks,
If you are making a new master catalog and want to catalog all of
the old master catalog's entries in it, the RCNVTCAT or SCNVTCAT REXX
execs are the thing for you. (CBT File 542 on the UPDATES page of
www.cbttape.org). Same goes for other catalog contents, when you want
to catalog the entries into another catalog. To generate a pds with all
the necessary DEFINE statements (or most of them), you just have to say:
TSO RCNVTCAT 'catalog.name'
and everything is generated for you. But if you want to put these
generated entries into a new catalog, you would have had to make a
global change to all the CATALOG( ) statements generated in the pds, to
direct the entries to the new catalog instead of the old one. Better to
do it automatically, so we thought.
So we enhanced (we being Lionel Dyck, John McKown and me) RCNVTCAT
and SCNVTCAT (which also runs under UNIX) to add a TARGET keyword to
point to a new catalog name. So a new syntax can now be:
TSO RCNVTCAT 'catalog.name' TARGET(my.new.catalog.name)
and this will put the string 'my.new.catalog.name' into all the
generated CATALOG( ) statements.
RCNVTCAT can also be used to compare two catalogs, but we're not
discussing that now. Look at the exec to see how that works. SCNVTCAT
(in CBT File 542) was enhanced similarly.
So see CBT File 542 on the UPDATES page of www.cbttape.org for the
new execs RCNVTCAT and SCNVTCAT, including the TARGET( ) keyword.
Use them in good health....!!!
Sincerely, Sam
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