Are they SAS datasets? If so you could capture the file names with ODS using Proc Datasets.

I tried it (on UNIX), and do get it into a data set, and of course you could use any number of means to print a sas data set to a file; if you are using SAS Connect you could use proc download after this to bring down the data set.

RSUBMIT;

libname saslib2 '/home/user/saslib'; ods output members=members; proc datasets library=saslib2; quit;

proc print data=members; run;

ENDRSUBMIT; signoff;

-Mary

--- zqr0@CDC.GOV wrote:

From: Jim Brittain <zqr0@CDC.GOV> To: SAS-L@LISTSERV.UGA.EDU Subject: Output a filelist to TXT file on Mainframe Date: Thu, 23 Jul 2009 16:54:20 -0400

I am working on a program to migrate several SAS and TXT files from a given Mainframe account to a Windows server. I have much of the program working and I have been working with a text file of Mainframe files created with TSO 3.4 dataset list that someone did for me. I would like to make the program more dynamic and send a list of all Mainframe datasets (files) to a text file that I can read in and create macro calls from.

I have tried a few aproaches that I found on here using PROC IDCAMS but each time it seams to keep running and never ending. The directory (Mainframe account) that I am trying to get a file list for testing purposes only has 13 files so it should be very quick.

I did get a list using the code below but it sends the list to the SAS LOG and I have not been able to redirect it with PROC PRINTTO.

Command I have used:

X 'LISTCAT LVL(ZQR0)';

Is there a way to redirect or "pipe" the output of this to a file like ZQR0.FILELIST.TXT?

I am working via SAS CONNECT so avoiding JCL would be my preferable solution.

Thanks, Jim