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What files are there?

Need a quick way to review file names in a library? Print a "VTOC"? Or how about letting users see a partial list and select the file they want to process? Esp. for S36env.

Our AS400 shop is still using the S/36 environment, and procedures with S/36 menus. We relied on the CATALOG command to track and identify our files, so made some adaptations on the iSeries. The first was our legacy command (procedure):

Click here to retrieve the code.

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This was first published in November 2001

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