Search across format libraries in FMTSEARCH option

Often times, programmers want to, • Search for a particular format that the program uses (Primary Objective) • Look for existence of the format in all possible format catalogs • List all available formats in a particular catalog With the increasing standardization and association of formats into multiple format catalogs, it becomes quite difficult to search for a particular format across all the format libraries. In this paper, we review an approach of developing a company level macro for implementing the above tasks.