Kris, Well it is a R/W minidisk. It is the 191 of the machine.
Yesterday, I was also playing around with the LISTFILE command. It seems that it retrieves the file names in the same unordered way. Regarding to your proposal, I wanted to program a CMS module that should not become dependent on external REXX EXEC(s). I think the documentation (CMS Application Development Guide SC24-6069-02 ) should reflect that the directory is not sorted. I was browsing through i t and could not find any hint on this issue. Also the CMS Callable Services Reference (SC24-6072-02) should contain a usage note referring to this. Thanks anyway for your proposal to overcome this problem. BR Fox. On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 20:11:25 +0100, Kris Buelens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have no experience with DMSGETDF... >Is this a R/W minidisk? Only for R/O minidisks CMS keeps the FST's sort ed. > >I would make the program call a REXX EXEC that in its turn executes a >PIPE that contains a LISTFILE and SORT stage. The PIPE could pass the >sorted list of files in the stack where your program retrieves them. >Or, more elegant, your assembler program allocates a buffer large >enough to store the result of the LISTFILE, prepares the PIPE command >with the LISTFILE and SORT, the last stage would be a STORAGE stage to >write the result in your program's buffer. > >Kris Buelens, >IBM Belgium, VM customer support >======================== ========================= ========================
