Accessing the CA7.SASDS Dataset

[Srosenfe]

Is there documentation on accessing,referencing(layout) of this VSAM file? I looked in the "programmers guide" but it just told about what may be stored in it and the DEFINE of it.

I know the PROSE information is stored in this dataset and I wasn't sure if there is another way to capture the "description" field listed below or how I would do it.

 

------------------------  CA-7 CPU JOB DOCUMENTATION  ----------------------

 

FUNCTION: REPL      (APPEND,CLEAR,DELETE,EDIT,FE,FETCH,LIST,REPL,SAVE,UPD)

 

 

　 

 

JOB: DOBR14

 

SYSTEM:

 

 

　 

 

　 

 

　 

 

DESC: DUMMY TEST JOB                              > LINK:

[Marysue]

There is no 'outside' access to data stored in the SASDS file for releases of CA 7 prior to r12.  The only access if through the LPROS command.  With r12 of CA 7 an SQL can be done against the Datacom/AD database file.

[Srosenfe]

Not sure but... I don't have access to the program but this program is extracting information - I wanted to write a SAS program to extract data until we convert to r12

 

S010LPRO   EXEC   PGM=XXXXXXXX,

 

  PARM='UPSI=L'

 

SASDS      DD     DSN=CA7.SASDS,

 

           DISP=SHR,

 

           AMP=('BUFND=42')

 

DESC       DD     DSN=XXXXXXXX.PROSE.OUT,

 

           DISP=(NEW,PASS),

 

           UNIT=SYSDA,

 

           DCB=(LRECL=100,BLKSIZE=23400,RECFM=FB),

 

           SPACE=(CYL,(10,2),RLSE)

 

PRT        DD     SYSOUT=Z

 

SYSUDUMP   DD     SYSOUT=Z

 

*

 

LPROS      DD     DUMMY

 

FILEOUT    DD     DUMMY

 

FJOB       DD     DUMMY

[Damion Rennie]

We have SAS programs (running in foreground and background z/OS) that extract from SASDS, SASJOB and VRM under r11.3. Is there any documentation that would help us workout how to connect to CA7 r12 using SAS on the mainframe ?