Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!decwrl!ucbvax!ALASKA.BITNET!SXRGS From: SXRGS@ALASKA.BITNET (Gordon Schumacher) Newsgroups: comp.lang.asm370 Subject: Re: Getting VSAM attributes from assembler programs Message-ID: <8912281927.AA07412@brazos.rice.edu> Date: 28 Dec 89 19:15:06 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: IBM 370 Assembly Programming Discussion List Distribution: inet Organization: The Internet Lines: 9 You should be able to process LISTCAT output by sending SYSPRINT to a dataset and then re-opening it for input after linking to IDCAMS. I've done that with SYSIN (i.e., write to it, close it and then link to IDCAMS to process it)... You still have to deal with changes to the ouput listing format, but that seems to be less work than chasing through the VVDS etc., etc.. gordon schumacher