Reading bulk of records from VSAM.

gokuldass · New User Joined: 18 Mar 2005 Posts: 48 Location: india

Hi all,

I just want to know on how to read a bulk of records from vsam file.

For example..

let us consider the following 8 records in the VSAM file sorted on key position 0 to 11.

Gokuldass00 seniorsoftware
Gokuldass01 H/wengineer
Gokuldass02 Eng
Gokuldass03 qualityanalyst
Gokuldass04 softwareeng
Harishkum00 DME
Harishkum01 manager
Jackdavids00 PM

Now, I want to read the records with keys starting from Gokuldass00 to Gokuldass04 at a single read into a buffer area. May be using StartBr command.

But my problem is, I know only first 9 positions of my key in my program & I don't know the sequence number appended with it.

Now I want to do a bulk read with this 9 character key which is not unique also. So, is there any chance to add the low and high value while reading the file.

Keep in mind that I don't want to do Sequential read in my program which costs more for me.

Please, let me know how to do it.

Thanks in Advance.
Regards,
Gokul

William Thompson · Posted: Wed Nov 29, 2006 5:39 pm

do you want to read those first 5 records or really start reading after them?

gokuldass · New User Joined: 18 Mar 2005 Posts: 48 Location: india

Hi,

The input record sequence may be different.

I am not always interested to read the first set of records..

It may come in any order.

For example.. Let us consider the name Zahirkhan00 to Zahirkhan10 which comes at the bottom while sorting..

Regards,
Gokul