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From: att!pacbell!ptsfa!rhc@UCBVAX.BERKELEY.EDU (Robert Cohen)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370
Subject: Re: Getting VSAM attributes from assembler programs
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Date: 28 Dec 89 04:27:42 GMT
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In article <8912272230.AA29590@brazos.rice.edu> IBM 370 Assembly Programming
        Discussion List <ASM370%UCF1VM.BITNET@ricevm1.rice.edu> writes:
->Can you tell me how to find the attributes of a VSAM cluster from an
->assembler program?
->
->For example, given the name of a VSAM cluster, how can you retrieve
->information about the cluster (like LISTCAT provides) from
->the ICF catalog?
->
->I've done some research and found a tedious way to do it:

Gee, why not LINK or CALL (whatever is the appropriate IBM term) to IDCAMS
from within your program?  Seems counterproductive to use all that creative
energy on something as dull as listcat!

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