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- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 16:42:49 EDT
- Sender: VM Utilities Discussion List <VM-UTIL@OHSTVMA.BITNET>
- From: "Steven P. Roder" <TKSSTEVE@UBVM.CC.BUFFALO.EDU>
- Subject: Re: ind$file running on cms reading os files
- In-Reply-To: Message of Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:36:00 EDT from <PEPMNT@CFAAMP>
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- On Fri, 11 Sep 1992 15:36:00 EDT John F. Chandler said:
- >> >We have a user that is link to an MVS disk from cms.
- >...
- >> If the MVS catalogs are ICF catalogs, then you cannot do it, since CMS does
- >> not support reading ICF catalogs. CMS does support VSAM catalogs.
- >
- >What do catalogs have to do with it? CMS has a link to a virtual disk
- >which happens to be in MVS format, so it presumably goes in and reads
- >the VTOC. My guess is that the best bet for reading a file from an OS
- >disk is to establish a CMS fileid by issuing a FILEDEF of the form
- >
- > FILEDEF ddname DISK name type mode DSN data.set.name
- >
- >and then referring to 'name type'. Unfortunately, this might work only
- >if the program uses OS-simulated I/O for reading the file.
- > John
-
- This is what I could not get to function when the MVS catalog on the linked
- volume is an ICF catalog, rather than a VSAM catalog.
-
-
- Steve Roder
- (tkssteve@ubvm.bitnet | tkssteve@ubvm.cc.buffalo.edu | (716)636-3564
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