With all the recent discussion about COBOL and bit twiddling and about
deleting migrated files, I wanted to look into some of our application
processes. We have a REXX program that makes LISTDSI calls, and I wondered
if there was any sort of equivalent interface for COBOL that I could pass
on to th
6:45 AM
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> Subject: COBOL interface to CSI
>
> With all the recent discussion about COBOL and bit twiddling and about
deleting
> migrated files, I wanted to look into some of our application processes.
We have a
> REXX program that makes LISTDSI call
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 08:45:21 -0500, Bill Ashton wrote:
>
>I am looking for a COBOL interface to the catalog that would tell me for a
>given file:
>1. Allocation primary, secondary and units
>2. Used amount
>3. Number of volumes and their volsers in sequence
>4. SMS class/group names
>5. File type
On 27 Feb 2014 05:45:28 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>With all the recent discussion about COBOL and bit twiddling and about
>deleting migrated files, I wanted to look into some of our application
>processes. We have a REXX program that makes LISTDSI calls, and I wondered
>if there w
On Thu, 27 Feb 2014 12:46:59 -0400, Clark Morris
wrote:
>This request provides another example of my belief that there should
>be an IBM supplied service that maps all PLS and/or Assembler DSCECT
>to the appropriate mappings in other languages including COBOL, PL1,
>C/C++, Rexx and others. Thi
Clark Morris wrote:
. . . there should be an IBM supplied service that maps all PLS and/or
Assembler DSCECT to the appropriate mappings in other languages
including COBOL, PL1, C/C++, Rexx and others . . .
and we should all, I suspect, agree that something of this sort would
be highly desirabl
On 27 Feb 2014 13:28:03 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote:
>Clark Morris wrote:
>
>
>. . . there should be an IBM supplied service that maps all PLS and/or
>Assembler DSCECT to the appropriate mappings in other languages
>including COBOL, PL1, C/C++, Rexx and others . . .
>
>
>and we shou
In
,
on 02/27/2014
at 08:45 AM, Bill Ashton said:
>We have a REXX program that makes LISTDSI calls, and I wondered if
>there was any sort of equivalent interface for COBOL
It's the same interface, and I believe that there is even a COBOL
example in SAMPLIB.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
Thanks to everyone for your suggestions...I will be looking into the
samples, and to the website samples as well. Please carry on with the rest
of your discussion - I find it quite edifying!
Billy
On Thu, Feb 27, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) <
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net> wrote:
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