The Mainframe Pages: Reference Data – Serena, Startool

FIXPDS EXPANDDIR(xx) In Startool 3.4, this will increase the size of the directory, in place, by xx blocks.

This can also be accomplished from the primary STARTOOL menu:
A (advanced)
12 (source PDS)
FIX (modify the dataset)
Full syntax:
TSO STARTOOL ‘dsn’ FIXPDS EXPANDDIR(nn)
FIXPDS RELEASE RELEXTENT – to release unused extents
FIXPDS ADDTRK(nn) – to add nn tracks to data extent(s)

STARTOOL ‘dsn’ PATTERN string will list all members of dsn whose name contains string.
STARTOOL ‘dsn’ ATTRIB member will display attributes (similar to ISPF 3.4 list) of member of dsn.
STARTOOL ‘dsn’ ALIAS membername aliasname Will create an alias for member in dsn.

Note: For reasons beyond my understanding, it is necessary to prefix the STARTOOL command with TSO when issuing the commands in ISPF option 6.


STARTOOL return codes:
711 This occurs when copying a PDSE to a PDS; it appears to be not a problem; my experience is that all members are correctly allocated.
714 The source dataset in a COPY operation contains 0 members.
971 This occurs when copying a PDSE to a PDS, and there are insufficient directory blocks in the target dataset for all members.