• Get PDS member using //DD:ddname(member)

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 2:47 pm**

Is there a way to execute a command like the following successfully using the //DD: parameter?

//MYPDS DD DISP=SHR,DSN=@17171.T.PARMLIB
//STDIN DD *
fromdsn //DD:MYPDS(TMP) > tmp.dat
fromdsn //DD:MYPDS(MORE) > more.dat

Thanks,
Scott

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:14 pm**

After reviewing the fopen() documentation a bit closer and the error messages I made the following changes (added quotes) and received the expected results.

//MYPDS DD DISP=SHR,DSN=@17171.T.PARMLIB
//STDIN DD *
fromdsn "//DD:MYPDS(TMP)" > tmp.dat
fromdsn "//DD:MYPDS(MORE)" > more.dat

Posted: **Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:19 pm**

What you have will work fine except for a minor problem...

If you execute these commands under the z/OS Unix shell, you will get the following error (I assume that this JCL fragment is running under COZBATCH, which runs your STDIN DD input using the z/OS Unix shell)

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fromdsn //DD:MYPDS(TMP) > tmp.dat 
FSUM7332 syntax error: got (, expecting Newline

This is because '(' is a special meta character to the shell. You can avoid this by quoting or escaping the argument. For example:

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fromdsn '//DD:MYPDS(TMP)' > tmp.dat 
fromdsn "//DD:MYPDS(TMP)" > tmp.dat 
fromdsn //DD:MYPDS\(TMP\) > tmp.dat

Note that in the above examples, the single quote, double quote, and backslash characters are processed by the shell and not actually passed as input to the fromdsn command.