Regarding updation in vsam

jose.jeyan · New User Joined: 28 Jul 2006 Posts: 60 Location: Mumbai

I have a question on the updation on vsam files

There is a vsam ksds file and there are many fields in it like name,country,phoneno,adress etc...
the request is the phoneno is 7 digit in length ie - 6543227
and i have to make this phoneno field to 8 digit ie to add 2 to the existing phone nos

is this possible and how

anyone pls tell me

raghunathns · Posted: Tue Sep 19, 2006 3:09 am

without increasing the file size. you declare the field as comp-3. so it can store 13 digits. but you may need to run one time program to convert all records after that you continue to use comp-3.

other way is to increase the file size. use repro and copy to seq. then copy to new vsam file. use new filed of x(8).