LISTCAT in JCL?

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prakash.subramaniam
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LISTCAT in JCL?

Post by prakash.subramaniam » Wed Jul 29, 2009 10:39 am

LISTCAT in JCL

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/* IDCAMS COMMAND  */
     LISTCAT ENTRIES(PLI0.EX.ABENDAID.DATA)
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Post by Natarajan » Wed Jul 29, 2009 12:14 pm

Prakash,

Do you have any question on this?
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Post by prakash.subramaniam » Wed Jul 29, 2009 2:44 pm

will you please tell me about, what the LISTCAT used for?
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Post by maheshvamsi » Wed Jul 29, 2009 3:16 pm

It will display all the information about the file.

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  LISTC ALL  ENT('MY.FILE')                                              
                                                                               
NONVSAM ------- MY.FILE                                                 
     IN-CAT --- ICFCAT.TESTCAT3                                                
     HISTORY                                                                   
       DATASET-OWNER-----(NULL)     CREATION--------2007.235                   
       RELEASE----------------2     EXPIRATION------0000.000                   
       ACCOUNT-INFO-----------------------------------(NULL)                   
     SMSDATA                                                                   
       STORAGECLASS ---STANDARD     MANAGEMENTCLASS--PARTPDS                   
       DATACLASS --------(NULL)     LBACKUP ---0000.000.0000                   
     VOLUMES                                                                   
       VOLSER------------TSTG5D     DEVTYPE------X'3010200F'     FSEQN---------
     ASSOCIATIONS--------(NULL)                                                
     ATTRIBUTES                                                                
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Post by Anuj Dhawan » Wed Jul 29, 2009 11:28 pm

The LISTCAT command lists catalog entries. Here is a link: http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/ ... 0113080956 to explore more.
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