Obtaining allocation environment information
Dynamic information retrieval provides you with information about
your current allocation environment. You can request allocation information
using any of the following:
- The dynamic information retrieval function (verb code 07)
- The dsname allocation function
- The ddname allocation function.
You can ask for information about any or all of your currently-allocated requests by specifying a relative request number. For example, you can obtain information about all your allocation requests by successively asking for information about the 1st, 2nd,...nth allocation request. Code the DINRTLST text unit key (key 13) with this series of requests, to receive an indication of the last relative entry.
Some of the information that you can request using verb code 07
includes:
- Data set name
- Ddname
- Pathname
- Member name
- Data set organization
- Status
- Normal disposition
- Abnormal disposition
Note: Dynamic information retrieval returns the compressed
version of the z/OS® UNIX pathname (multiple slashes
are reduced to a single slash). Information retrieval will return
a pathname of /dev/null for dummy z/OS UNIX files,
regardless of the pathname originally specified on the JCL or dynamic
allocation.
Dynamic information retrieval text units describes the information that you can retrieve.