# Determine allocated file name **URL:** \ **Category:** Forum\ **Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\ **Created:** [March 9, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652 "2006-03-09T19:51:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![pidipius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/48db29/32.png) [@pidipius](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/pidipius)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 7:51pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652/1 "2006-03-09T19:51:16Z")
How to determine allocated file name in natural (giving workfile number)? ---
**Author:** ![Curtis\_Pew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Curtis\_Pew](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Curtis_Pew)\ **Post date:** [March 9, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652/2 "2006-03-09T20:11:35Z")
If you have Entire System Server (aka Natural Process) this is fairly easy. If you don’t, I don’t know of a way, unless you want to write an assembler routine and call it. ---
**Author:** ![Henrik\_Hermansen1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Henrik\_Hermansen1](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Henrik_Hermansen1)\ **Post date:** [March 17, 2006, 5:15pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652/3 "2006-03-17T17:15:45Z")
> [@](#): > > If you have Entire System Server (aka Natural Process) this is fairly easy Very explaining 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Carreon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@Arnold\_Carreon](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Arnold_Carreon)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2006, 1:28am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652/4 "2006-03-23T01:28:50Z")
If you are not using ESS, you may have: - specified it in the JCL, then pass it on to the program. If passing on is a problem, parse the JCL if you know where it is located :twisted: - created it using the user-exit/dynamic allocation, then pass it on to the program needing it ---
**Author:** ![Curtis\_Pew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Curtis\_Pew](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Curtis_Pew)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 1:17am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652/5 "2006-03-25T01:17:35Z")
> [@](#): > > Very explaining 😉 I didn’t take the trouble to work it out earlier (because I’m lazy), but I ended up having to do something like this today. So here’s some code to find the dataset name for work file 1: ```auto MOVE *INIT-USER TO #JOB-NAME FIND ALLOCATIONS WITH JOB-NAME = #JOB-NAME AND DDNAME = 'CMWKF01' DISPLAY DSNAME END-FIND ``` ---
**Author:** ![Arnold\_Carreon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7ea924/32.png) [@Arnold\_Carreon](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Arnold_Carreon)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652/6 "2006-03-25T03:51:50Z")
Curtis, Is this using ESS? We don’t have it so I don’t even know the fields of the ALLOCATIONS view. Using your code, wouldn’t you need additional criteria if you have multiple steps and if you have procs? ---
**Author:** ![zarchasmpgmr](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/zarchasmpgmr/32/126_2.png) [@zarchasmpgmr](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/zarchasmpgmr)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 3:15am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652/7 "2006-03-26T03:15:20Z")
If there isn’t a USR routine to do it, you’ll have to write an assembler program. Are you z/OS or z/VSE? (I’ll assume you aren’t BS2000/OSD. 😃 ) I’ve got routines that you can use for either one. ---
**Author:** ![Curtis\_Pew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Curtis\_Pew](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Curtis_Pew)\ **Post date:** [March 29, 2006, 11:56pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652/8 "2006-03-29T23:56:29Z")
My sample code does use ESS. ALLOCATIONS is one of the views provided by ESS. It reports the allocations of the currently executing step; you don’t have to provide step or proc information. (On the other hand, if you want to know about a step not currently executing, you’re out of luck.) ---
**Author:** ![florian\_gaulier](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a8b319/32.png) [@florian\_gaulier](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/florian_gaulier)\ **Post date:** [May 24, 2007, 6:16pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652/9 "2007-05-24T18:16:58Z")
You can use USR1007 ---
**Author:** ![thespin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8c91f0/32.png) [@thespin](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/thespin)\ **Post date:** [May 26, 2007, 3:27am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652/10 "2007-05-26T03:27:13Z")
> [@florian\_gaulier](#): > > You can use USR1007 Hello florian\_gaullier. Thanks for your input. I had asked pidipius’ question in a previous post but unfortunately we do not have ESS at our site. I took a look at the SYSEXT sample program (we have Natural 4.13 installed) for USR1007 but didn’t see it returning the dataset name. “Device Name” is only 8 bytes long and is probably DDName. Here is the parameter layout used to call the module: ```auto 01 PARMS /* PARAMETER LIST 02 DEVICE-CLASS (A08) /* IN/OUT : 'P'RINTER,'W'ORKFILE,'L'OGPRINT 02 DEV-NO (N02) /* IN : DEVICE NUMBER 02 ERROR (N04) /* OUT : ERROR CODE 02 ERROR-TEXT (A72) /* OUT : EXPLANATION TO ERROR CODE 02 STAT-TX (A32) /* OUT : DEVICE STATUS TEXT 02 STAT-CD (A08) /* OUT : DEVICE STATUS CODE 02 SYSNO (A03) /* OUT : VSE EDITED SYS-NUMBER 02 NUM (N02) /* OUT : PHYSICAL device number 02 TYPE (A08) /* OUT : DEVICE TYPE 02 NAME (A08) /* OUT : DEVICE NAME 02 RECF (A02) /* OUT : 02 LEN (P05) /* OUT : 02 BLKS (P05) /* OUT : ``` Do you have more info ? Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:40pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/determine-allocated-file-name/60652/11 "2021-04-02T14:40:30Z")