With the aid of the FSTAT macro or the SHOW-FILE-ATTRIBUTES command, the user can obtain information from the catalog entries of his own files (whether permanent or temporary) at any time. (S)he can also obtain information from the catalog entries of shareable files which belong to other users.
The information output can be controlled using the various functions of the macro or command:
select certain parts of the catalog entry
use selection criteria to control the information output on the basis of the attributes stored in the catalog entry
direct output to various output media: SYSOUT, SYSLST, file, printer
The user can also use the utility routine SPCCNTRL to obtain information from catalog entries (see the “Utility Routines” manual [13 (Related publications)]).