Obtaining Date created and date referenced using REXX

raam · New User Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 13 Location: mumbai

Hi,
Please let me know a suitable way to obtain date created and date referenced for VSAM files using Rexx.

I was using LISTDSI for other datasets but it is not working for VSAM datasets.

The command LISTC is not fetching the Refernce date but gives creation date alone.

Please help me out pals.

Regards,
Ram

expat · Posted: Fri Jun 15, 2007 7:42 pm

I think that you will need to look at the DCOLLECT D records for the data portion of the cluster to get this.

Otherwise type 64 SMF records.

VSAM dataset statistics are only updated at the close of file.

raam · New User Joined: 29 Jan 2007 Posts: 13 Location: mumbai

Hi,

Thanks for the info.

Can you explain to me with a simple example in REXX of using DECOLLECT to obtain the referred of a VSAM dataset.

Regards,
RAAM

expat · Posted: Wed Jun 20, 2007 3:27 pm

DCOLLECT records are comprehensively discussed in the IBM IDCAMS (VSAM) manual which you can access using the manuals button at the top of this page.