OA01530: THERE IS NO FORMAT DEFINITION FOR THE VARIABLES RETURN BY DSINFO

APAR status

• Closed as documentation error.

Error description

• The format of the variables return by DSINFO is not documented.
  This information is needed when customer call DSINFO in a
  program such as a COBOL program.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * USERS AFFECTED: Users of ISPF service 'DSINFO'               *
  *                                                              *
  ****************************************************************
  * PROBLEM DESCRIPTION: A list of dialog variables is provided  *
  *                      which will return dataset information   *
  *                      when the 'DSINFO' service is called,    *
  *                      but their type and length are not       *
  *                      documented making it difficult for the  *
  *                      caller to use them.                     *
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION: Use the table produced for this apar.        *
  ****************************************************************
  The ISPF Services Guide does not adequately document the
  dialog variables used to return information from the 'DSINFO'
  service.
  

Problem conclusion

• Peeksize
  The ISPF Servcies Guide has been updated to contain a table
  containing the variable names, their contents, the variable
  type and the variable length.
  
  --------- Start of documentation changes -----------------------
  Changes to:
  ISPF Services Guide Z/OS V1 R5.0 (SC34-4819-01)
  ----------------------------------------------------------------
  Variable Information Type Length
  DSVOL First or only volume Character 6
  ZDS#VOLS Number of volumes  Character 2
  ZDSDEVT Device type  Character 8
  ZDSORG Data set organization  Character 8
  ZDSRF Record format  Character 6
  ZDSLREC Logical record length  Character 7
  ZDSBLK Block size  Character 6
  ZDSSPC Primary space units  Character 8
  ZDS1EX Primary space allocation  Character 13
  ZDS2SPC Secondary space units  Character 8
  ZDS2EX Secondary space allocation  Character 13
  ZDSDSNT Data set name type  Character 8
  ZDSSEQ Compressible YES/NO  Character 4
  ZDSCDATE Creation date (national format) Character 10
  ZDSXDATE Expiration date (national format) Character 10
  ZDSRDATE Referenced date (national format) Character 10
  ZDSTOTA Allocated space units  Character 13
  ZDSTOTU Used space units  Character 13
  ZDSEXTA Allocated extents  Character 4
  ZDSEXTU Used extents  Character 7
  ZDSDIRA Allocated directory blocks  Character 6
  ZDSDIRU Used directory blocks  Character 8
  ZDSDIR PDSE directory blocks  Character 8
  ZDS#MEM Number of members  Character 13
  ZDSPAGU Pages used (PDSE)  Character 13
  ZDSPERU Percent used (PDSE)  Character 13
  ZDSMC Management class  Character 8
  ZDSSC Storage class  Character 8
  ZDSDC Data class  Character 8
  ZDSCB1 Format 1 data control block  Character 96
  ZDSVTAB Volume table (contains all of the volume names for a
          multivolume set) Character 354
  
  --------- End of documentaion changes --------------------------
  

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