Read a string in multiple PDS members

vinayknj · New User Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 50 Location: Bangalore

Hi,

I want to search for a STRING in a PDS which has around 200 members using REXX. I know I can do this using 3.15 Search option but I am writing a Rexx tool to display all the programs in which this particular string is found.

Please suggest me how to read a PDS one member after another member? Thanks

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 11:36 am

tell US for what reason we should waste out time in thinking on how to reinvent the wheel

How to read a PDS member has been debated too many times, just search the forums!

vinayknj · New User Joined: 26 May 2008 Posts: 50 Location: Bangalore

I am sorry if these are repeated queries.

I know how to read a PDS member by giving member name. But in my case I want to read all the members in a PDS one after another. I am not sure if this can be done through Rexx.

Thanks,
Vinay Kumar N.J

expat · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:29 pm

dbzTHEdinosauer · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:49 pm

well there are two ways to go about this:

1. invoke superc from rexx, parse the output

2. learn the lmm... routines contained in the ISPF services manual,
(of which there are about 2000000000000000 threads).

[Personal Opinion Start]

Funny, these rookies who write TOOLS
that have no idea what is available on the mainframe,
nor how to do it,
spend their time writting interfaces for things
instead of writing useful tools, that would provide system-wide analysis to COBOL systems.

[Personal Opinion End]

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:00 pm