Wednesday, August 10, 2016

REXX LISTD Command: Reading all member names from a PDS

When we have only handful of members in a PDS, it is easily to make a list of their names. Imagine if we have 1000 members in a PDS. Some may do it manually but some use REXX script to do this task quickly.

Lets see how to do this in REXX.

PDSNAME="Your-PDS Name"                                    
CALL OUTTRAP "MBRS."                                               
"LISTD" "'"PDSNAME"'" "MEMBERS"                                     
CALL OUTTRAP "OFF"                                                            
DO I=1 TO MBRS.0                                                    
    IF MBRS.I = "--MEMBERS--" THEN LEAVE                            
END                                                                          
I = I+1
DO MEM = I TO MBRS.0                                                
       Say "Member Name ;" MBRS.MEM
END

This code would display all the members in a PDS. Instead of displaying the member name you shall add your own logic to fulfill your requirement.

1 comment:

  1. Hi,
    I have requirement like need to pull the given data (length 15) from mainframe file.
    Here mainframe file is GDG versions given data should read these generations untill it found and pull it to new output dataset.
    Can you please let me know can we do this in Rexx, if possible can you share few example to below gievn mail id.
    Kondaprashanth@rocketmail.com

    ReplyDelete

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