[Cvs-mvs] OT: Access to PDS's through OMVS

[Wayne Johnson]

Greeting back at you,

It's been 18 months since I played with USS, my new job keeps me out of
MVS pretty much... Amazing how fast you loose it.

There is a command (ocopy?) to copy files back and forth from and to a
PDS.  In our build process, we had a makefile and kept "tag" files in the
HFS that represented the last time a copybook had been copied to the PDF.
 If the current (cvs) file was newer than the PDS "tag" file, we would do
the ocopy and then touch the tag file.

Another place to ask would be the MVS-OE Mailing list
MVS-OE@VM.MARIST.EDU

Please post your experiences, that way all get to learn, both on the list
as well as generations to come through the archive :{)>

--- Connor.Smith@ebancllc.com wrote:
> Greetings - 
> 
> I've just installed your port of CVS onto our OS/390 box, but I can't 
> figure out how to get at files which aren't covered under the HFS 
> partitions.  (i.e. in our Development LPAR, we've several regions.  I'd
> 
> like to get the source COBOL, copybook, and a couple of other PDS's out
> of 
> that partition, and ship them over to our CVS repository).
> 
> So (and I realize these questions fall less under the topic of your CVS
> 
> port, and more under how to administer OMVS) but I don't really know
> where 
> to go from here, so:  Are there ways to access PDS's through an HFS
> path? 
> Is the only way to access a PDS through FTP or IND$FILE transfers?
> 
> Thanks for reading this - I'm pretty facile in CVS once I can get the 
> files to a *nix-style path, but the data is hidden where I can't really
> 
> get at it.  I guess a best case scenario would be some type of access
> to 
> the files packed into the PDS, but I'm pretty sure that doesn't exist. 
> : 
> )
> 
> Sincerely,
> Connor Smith


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