How to execute a macro on a complete PDS

pnkumar · New User Joined: 27 Oct 2005 Posts: 24

HI everyone,

I have to change a working storage field name . I need to change it where ever it is present in all the members of the PDS.Can anyone help me how to execute a macro without opening the members of the PDS.
I dont have much idea on macro concepts.

superk · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:34 pm

If by "macro" you are referring to an ISPF EDIT macro, then, by definition, a macro can only be executed on a dataset being edited.

If you want to execute an ISPF EDIT macro against each member of an entire PDS, then you'll need to invoke an EDIT session for each member:

Do loop for each member
ISPEXEC EDIT DATASET(thepds(themember)) MACRO(themacro) or
CALL ISPLINK USING EDIT thepds themember themacro ...
End Do loop

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Mar 08, 2007 10:57 pm

Hello,

Does your installation have FileAid? If so, this may be done online or in batch.

If you look around in the clist&rexx forum, there are some examples of writing your own code to globally change values in members of a pds.

superk · Posted: Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:16 am

The IPOUPDTE utility program also works well for these situations.