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Karthikeyan Subbarayan
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Location: Boston
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Hi,
I have a dataset with 500+ members in it. I need to unload the entire dataset to a text file and each member name should be the file name of the text file.
For eg:
QUAL1.QUAL2.DATASET has 4 members like
MEM1
MEM2,
MEM3,
MEM4
now i need to unload the entire dataset to text file
where MEM1.txt should have all the data available in MEM1
similarly MEM2.txt should have all the data available in MEM2,
MEM3.txt should have all the data available in MEM3
and MEM4.txt should have all the data available in MEM4
Is it possible to do by file transfer ? |
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Akatsukami
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Location: Bloomington, IL
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| Not that I'm aware. To the left, a Rexx script using ISPF services to get the list of members and tailor a skeleton should do it quite nicely. |
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Karthikeyan Subbarayan
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| but is it possible to unload to our local PC for all the members ? |
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Akatsukami
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| Probably. You don't say what terminal emulator you use, but I use Rumba, and a PDS(E) member can easily be unloaded to a PC file by its Transfer feature. I have no need to do such a thing, and therefore haven't tried writing a macro to do it, but I expect it could be done. |
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don.leahy
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Location: Whitby, ON, Canada
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ISPF Workstation Agent can do what you are asking for.
See option 3.7.2. If you specify the workstation file as say: P:\documents\*.txt the ISPF member name will be substituted for the asterisk. |
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prino
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Location: Vilnius, Lithuania
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| Karthikeyan Subbarayan wrote: |
| but is it possible to unload to our local PC for all the members ? |
What I'm puzzled about in all answers is the lack of a pretty fundamental question:
Why would you like to do that?
Employees taking files from the system to their own PC? Why the flipping 'ell do they need those files on their PC? To take to a competitor? To set up their own business? |
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dick scherrer
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Hello,
Most PCs have an ftp client installed - most are GUI these days.
Start the FTP client. Switch to the proper pc directory and on the mainframe, use the PDS name as the directory and it will show all of the members as though they were individual files. Select some or all of the members and transfer them (ASCII) to the PC.
I use this fairly often to keep custom sets of "tools/toys" - too lazy to go back and make them all generic  |
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Ed Goodman
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Location: USA
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| Code: |
(command prompt)
(change to target PC directory)
cd \backup_mf_stuff
ftp -i mainframe_ip_address
(login with mainfame id/password)
cd 'wtso.wneg.pds'
>>'wtso.wneg.pds' is a partition dataset
mget *
bye
(back at command prompt)
ren *. *.txt |
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Robert Sample
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| Ed: I recommend toggling the PROMPT option so the FTP runs without the question about downloading each member. |
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Ed Goodman
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| that's what the '-i' does on the command line. |
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Pete Wilson
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Location: London
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If you have FileAid on your system you can unload an entire PDS into a single flat-file with member name headings and the member contents following. I've found this very useful at times. The output file could be post processed to generate the separate text files from that.
Go to FileAid option 6 (Search/Update Facility) and select B (Browse Globally) |
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