How To Create Pds In Mainframe

PDS Members

In the Mainframe Navigation view, the PDS members are shown when you expand a partitioned dataset.

This document covers the following topics:

Filtering PDS Members
Adding a New PDS Member
Submitting a PDS Member
Displaying the Properties of a PDS Member

Filtering PDS Members

Before displaying PDS members, you can define a filter so that only those members are shown which correspond to your filter criteria.

Start of instruction set To define a filter

In the Mainframe Navigation view, select the appropriate dataset in the folder.
Invoke the context menu and choose .

Or:
Press F3.

A dialog box appears.

Enter the filter criteria.

Option	Description
Member name	The members that are to be shown. You can use a combination of strings and wildcards (* and _) to display the members matching the member name pattern.
Scan for	When you specify a character string, only the members containing this string will be shown.

Choose the OK button.

Adding a New PDS Member

You can add a new PDS member to a z/OS dataset.

Start of instruction set To add a new PDS member

In the Mainframe Navigation view, select the appropriate dataset in the folder.
Invoke the context menu and choose .

Or:
Press CTRL+N.

An empty editor window appears for the new member.
Enter the data for the new member.

See also Commands for Editing an Object.
Save the new member using the standard Eclipse functionality (for example, press CTRL+S).

A dialog box appears.

Enter the following information:

Option	Description
Member	A name for the new member.
Password	System password if dataset is protected.

Note:
It is recommended that you do not change any other values and keep the current location for the new member.

Choose the OK button.

Submitting a PDS Member

You can submit a PDS member to the operating system.

Start of instruction set To submit a PDS member

Select a member in the Mainframe Navigation view.
Invoke the context menu and choose .

Or:
Press CTRL+U.

A dialog box appears, confirming that the member has been submitted.

Displaying the Properties of a PDS Member

You can display information about a PDS member. Different types of information are shown for normal PDS members and for PDS members of a load library.

Start of instruction set To display the properties of a PDS member

Select a member in the Mainframe Navigation view.
Invoke the context menu and choose .

Or:
Press ALT+ENTER.

A properties dialog box appears.

The following topics are covered below:

Normal PDS Member
PDS Member of a Load Library

Normal PDS Member

The properties dialog box for a normal PDS member provides the following information on the Server page:

Tab	Option	Description
Member	Version	Version number of the member.
	Creation date	Date in format YYYY-MM-DD when the member was created.
	Last modification	Date in format YYYY-MM-DD when the member was last modified.
	User ID	User who last modified the member.
	Initial	Initial size of this version.
	Size	Number of lines in the member.
Dataset	Device type	The specified volume or the generic identifier from which a volume is to be selected (for example, 3380).
	Organization	For example:
		PO	PDS
		PS	Sequential dataset
		DA	Direct access
	Record format	For example:
		FB	Fixed block
		VB	Variable block
		FBA	Fixed block, ANSI control characters
	Record length	Record length in bytes.
	Block size	Block size in bytes.

PDS Member of a Load Library

The properties dialog box for a PDS member of a load library provides the following information on the Server page:

Tab	Option	Description
Member	Length	Member's length in bytes.
	Hex	Member's length in bytes in hexadecimal format.
	Attribute	The member's attributes in keyword format. The relevant keywords are separated by one blank. For possible values, see the description of the MODULE-ATTRIBUTES field in the LIB-DIRECTORY view in the Entire System Server User's Guide.
	Entry point	Entry point of the load module.
	Linkage date	Date of linkage/zap in format YYYY-MM-DD.
	Linkage editor	Name of linkage/zap editor.
	Version	Version of linkage/zap editor.
	ZAPS	Displays the number of applied zaps.
	Unresolved	Displays the number of unresolved external references.
Dataset	Provides the same information as the properties dialog box for a normal PDS member. See the above table.