PDSFLIST - Release Notes, Version 3.3      (Dated 27/08/98).

Version 3.3 of PDSFLIST is now available. This is a features and maintenance release.

New features

The "dataset not allocated" processing has been changed. Prior to this version, any failure to allocate a dataset would result in an error message and the PDSFLIST being terminated. This was not very elegant for concatenated dataset processsing. Now, if the dataset cannot be allocated (for whatever reason), PDSFLIST processing continues with the other datasets requested. For a dataset that could not be allocated, the display will show an entry with no member or type information and *Not Allocated* highlighted in the command area. For a single dataset allocation, the dataset not allocated error message is still displayed and PDSFLIST terminates (as before).

Subcommand V now invokes the ISPF View service for the selected member.

Subcommands M and MR are now recognised as 'MOVE' and 'MOVE with REPLACE' respectively.

Subcommand /Q is now recognised as Quit. This is to achieve compatibility with VM/CMS. It is also useful to be able to 'stack' this on a display list at the end of multiple commands. 

Maintenance changes

Both the command line 'parsing' code and the TSO command execution code has been re-written. This was to fix various (obscure) problems and make the code easier to maintain in the future.