Data and Index Components

Priya_Shankar · New User Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 22 Location: Chennai

We define data and index component for a cluster. As we know, it is the data component which contains the actual records and the index component contains the pointer which references the records. In the DEFINE command, we just define the base cluster, data and index components and in the program we load the records into the cluster. My question is it possible to browse the data and index component of a cluster? I tried but not able to browse the file. Why it is so?

CICS Guy · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 5:48 pm

What do you hope to gain by browsing either the data or index components?

Priya_Shankar · New User Joined: 07 Aug 2007 Posts: 22 Location: Chennai

I just want to know that instead of viewing the records through file-aid using the base cluster name, is it possible to view the records of the .data file?

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Sep 25, 2007 7:56 pm

Hello,

The underlying datasets are not meant to be "browsed". The entire plan is that the vsam access method be used even to browse. FileAid and other products provide a "friendly" fron-ent so that you can view the contents, but "normal" opens/reads are not meant to work.

You could spend time learning how to directly read the datasets with assembler, but i would advise against it.

hemanth.nandas · Active User Joined: 18 Aug 2007 Posts: 120 Location: India

Hi,

you can do it but I am not sure whether it will work or not, since long back I tried for same and its not a user friendly.

Just try with this command

PRINT IDS(/) CH

Use this command against dataset name. As u give command on daset for EDIT, BROWSE.

Thanks N Regards

expat · Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2007 1:31 pm