https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-capture-MVS-file-info-into-SAS/m-p/28239#M5200 Does anyone have any idea how to capture the 'Reference Date' as in ISPF 3.4 with 'S' comand into SAS ? The IDCAMS LISTCAT command can capture the 'creation date' and the 'expiration date' but not the 'reference date'.<BR /> <BR /> Thanks <BR /> Kwok Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:36:01 GMT Kwok 2008-06-30T16:36:01Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-capture-MVS-file-info-into-SAS/m-p/28239#M5200 Does anyone have any idea how to capture the 'Reference Date' as in ISPF 3.4 with 'S' comand into SAS ? The IDCAMS LISTCAT command can capture the 'creation date' and the 'expiration date' but not the 'reference date'.<BR /> <BR /> Thanks <BR /> Kwok Mon, 30 Jun 2008 16:36:01 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-capture-MVS-file-info-into-SAS/m-p/28239#M5200 Kwok 2008-06-30T16:36:01Z https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-capture-MVS-file-info-into-SAS/m-p/28240#M5201 Hi:<BR /> The appendix on reading MVS files -- in this paper about dealing with files on different operating systems -- may help:<BR /> <A href="http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi28/001-28.pdf" target="_blank">http://www2.sas.com/proceedings/sugi28/001-28.pdf</A><BR /> <BR /> Also, the SAS companion for MVS (z/OS) might help.Especially this section on reading the VTOC: VTOC Options for the INFILE Statement under z/OS <BR /> <A href="http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hosto390/59577/HTML/default/chifoptfmain.htm#mvs-stmt-vtoc" target="_blank">http://support.sas.com/documentation/cdl/en/hosto390/59577/HTML/default/chifoptfmain.htm#mvs-stmt-vtoc</A><BR /> <BR /> cynthia Mon, 30 Jun 2008 17:15:09 GMT https://communities.sas.com/t5/SAS-Programming/How-to-capture-MVS-file-info-into-SAS/m-p/28240#M5201 Cynthia_sas 2008-06-30T17:15:09Z