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Status Future consideration
Workspace z/OS
Categories DFSMS Utilities
Created by Guest
Created on Nov 21, 2017

RELATED IDEAS

System utilities should produce more parseable output

IBM system utility output can be unnecessarily verbose. Most utilities produce page numbers, multiple headings, etc. Quite often this is not useful and must be filtered out by programs or scripts before or during processing. It would be be very useful, and save a *lot* of effort in some cases, if an option could be specified to suppress page numbering and multiple headers etc and output something similar to a CSV containing one line per item. A good example is IDCAMS LISTC which is extremely verbose and requires (for example) a lot of processing to extract information. The request is not limited to IDCAMS but would be useful for all utilities DFSMS and non-DFSMS.

Idea priority Medium
  • Guest
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    |     Mar 3, 2022

    Additional output options such as a universal CSV file should be a standard.

  • Guest
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    |     Jan 10, 2018

    DFHCSDUP has an Exit Option. But i consider this a workaround.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 24, 2017

    Thanks Pilch, Yes, I am aware of the CSI, however that is just one of many sources of information available. I think it's time IBM allowed users and sysprogs to only have to consider one way of processing info for most major subsystems. You could use the same argument for DFHCSDUP for CICS. I suspect that with more interfaces being exposed to the web then the REST APIs that IBM will need to develop can easily be tweaked to also produce CSV ouput.

  • Guest
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    |     Nov 23, 2017

    For catalog related data, i suggest to use the catalog search interface.
    But i agree that lots of utilities create to much "spaghetti", that makes it difficult to parse.....

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