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Name

dmmgsi — Inquire identifier of dataset

Description

dmmgsi returns the identifier of a MemCom dataset residing in dynamic memory under the symbolic name name. A zero identifier is returned if the dataset name has not been found in the Dynamic Memory buffer.

Specification (F77)

subroutine dmmgsi(name, ident)
character*(*) name
integer*4 ident

Parameters

name

Dataset name (input). The string must consist of not more that 63 characters and it may not contain special characters or blanks.

ident

Identifier returned from DMM (output). A value greater than 0 means that the dataset name exists and ident points to it. A value of 0 means that the dataset does not exist in DMM.