How can I update REFLIST ?
Gilbert Saint-Flour
When I display REFLIST, I see the names of the last 30 non-VSAM data sets
I BROWSEd, but NOT of the VSAM files I BROWSEd using the BR command.
On my system, I told ISPF to use BR when the user tries to BROWSE a VSAM file.
On DSLIST, when I BROWSE a VSAM file using the B command, REFLIST is updated.
When I use the BR command, REFLIST is NOT updated, which seems perfectly
normal, i.e. I don't call this a problem.
I'd like to modify BR to update REFLIST, i.e. the ISRPLIST table, which should
work fine even if ISPF already updated it. But how can I update ISRPLIST ?
Is it documented ? Thank you for your answer.
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Gilbert Saint-Flour
GSF Software
http://gsf-soft.com/
Seibert, Dave
Many years ago, I asked if there were any APIs to the reflist
facility. There weren't back then.
As I recall Doug Nadel confirmed there weren't and others suggested
hacking the table format that was used to store reflist.
At the time, I had planned to enhance my version of ISRDDN* to add
reflist datasets for processing in my version of that dslist.
But I didn't make time to pursue.
Dave
*Way back when(December 1990), poking control blocks to get the
allocated files list was documented in a Tech Support magazine article
Rexx for Systems Programmers, by Sam Ruff, I think. Several of us wrote
versions of that to display and process the list. My version provided
line commands for browse, edit, compare, locate, info, free,
version-info, and others. I had expanded the program to handle other
input datasets than the allocated list - such as a catalog list or a
manually maintained list, like reflist.
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