Scanning the Entire Librarian Master File for a Specific String

Products

• Librarian

Issue/Introduction

How can the Entire Librarian Master file be scanned for a specific string

Environment

Release 4.4 

Resolution

Here is a sample job to scan a whole master file for a certain string. Replace the following:

1. *search string* with the string needed to be searched for
2. your.libr.master with the name of the Librarian master file

//LIB2         EXEC     PGM=AFOLIBR,PARM='DEPTH=25'
//MASTER       DD       DSN=your.libr.master,DISP=SHR
//OSJOB        DD       DUMMY
//LIST         DD       SYSOUT=*
//SYSPRINT     DD       SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN        DD       *
-OPT UTILITY
-SCAN *search string*
-END
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