Re: CLP to save just srcf files

[Al Barsa <barsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

TAA doesn't have what you want, but it could (within the limits I note
below).

There's nothing to say that a source file has to start with a Q (although
that's very typical), but with that said, it does have a *OBJTYPE of
something like PF-SRC (there is a System/38 variations) object type, but
not a complicated difference.  Although it would not be as efficient as you
like (to be polite), you could do a DSPOBJD (library-name)/*ALL *FILE to an
output file, and then OPNQRYF to find the source files.  *YUK.  DSPFD
should have something comparable that would run faster, but I don't think
(and rightly so) that it's high on IBM list of desired enhancements.

Limitations:  300 objects per library, and one library to a save file.
(There's an exception to get more than 300 libraries to a Save operation,
but not a SAVF.  SAVF's are only library per save operation.  SAVLIB has a
complicated exception that let';s you go past the 300 limit, and I betcha
there's something comparable to SAVOBJ, but than that tells me that your
system's isn't set up well.)   You could get around this with virtual tape,
but it's really *COMPLICATED. and I suspect you wouldn't be happy.  (Like
being on the Titanic.)   There's a TAATOOL to help with virtual tape, and
that just a little less complicated than relativity, and plausibly warmer
than the water where the Titanic sunk.

Bad news:  DSPOBJD would take longer than it took for the Titanic to sink.
after first spotting the first iceberg.  (A bigger rudder would have helped
a lot, but I'm just a boat guy.)

Good news:  The inherent overlap in the save architecture would make it
seem that the save itself goes really fast, even faster than the Titanic
than was the sinking of the Thresher (you'd have to be over 50 to remember
that one, and not very wall documented as that was a submarine).

Suggestions:
o     Put all your source files in one library:  (A really good suggestion
if I say so myself, I'm sure someone will argue with me on this, and then
tell them something about the horse they rode in on.)  A reasonable caveat
would be one library per application.  For example mixing AR and AP would
likely be bad.
o     All (realistic)  limitations (including 300 object save limit and the
speed of DSPOBJD) go away.  In this environment, there are limits, but they
are *REALLYHIGH.
o     By all comparison's save is really fast  in this environment.  An
overlap structure was built into it early in the System/38, and as long as
your objects are not hugely different in size (source typically isn't),
life is happy.
o     When the building fire alarm go's off, you know what to save
immediately, and SAVLIB and better yet SAVCHGOBJ would run light greased
lightning.

Al

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Hi, I want to save all source files to a savf and I've got a pgm that does
that by saving all files prefixed by Q* to a savf.  There are some PF's
that have files prefixed by Q so what's the best way to save only the
source files to the savf and not the PF's?

Thanks, Frank

p.s.  We don't have TAATOOLS which probably has something to do this.


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