Will JOB Abend if Use empty VSAM file

rakeshCSC · New User Joined: 30 Apr 2007 Posts: 1 Location: Hyderabad

Hi,

i have a query like i am gng to use an empty VSAM file in my program,
at that time will i get any compilation error or job will be abebded with any file status plz let me know.

Regards
Y.Srinivasa Rakesh

rz061m · New User Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 48 Location: Chennai

Hi,

YES, of course. If you use and empty file(just created) it will abend saying "file does not exist". To avoid this have a dummy record in the VSAM file or Open the file in OUTPUT mode and then close it, before opening in it again. By this way you will can avoid the progarm from abending.

Thanks,
Karthik. P

pingte · Active User Joined: 03 Dec 2005 Posts: 120 Location: india

Hi Rakesh,

there will not be any compilation error. During compilation the existence of file is not checked. Only syntax checking is done.

But of course the job will abend.

To avoid this scenario of opening empty VSAM and abending, you can use SELECT OPTIONAL clause in FD section.

bansal · New User Joined: 03 Jan 2007 Posts: 27 Location: Hyderabad

To add to the above , u can specify the dummy record in the jcl by specifying AMP='AMORG'

This parameter will treat it as a VSAM file.

Hope this helps

nuthan · Posted: Thu Jun 07, 2007 4:40 pm

IF you are trying to read an Empty VSAM file your job will get error with MAXCC 12.