Can we open / close vsam files using JCL???

Laxminarsimharao · New User Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 26 Location: hyderabad

Can we open / close vsam files using JCL???

Please help me out.

expat · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:47 pm

Laxminarsimharao · New User Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 26 Location: hyderabad

Thanks expat.

can you tell me the code for open / close vsam files using JCL

expat · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:52 pm

The code is in your program, the JCL merely executes the program of your choice and assigns the required datasets to the relevant DD names.

Or did you mean doing something else ?

Laxminarsimharao · New User Joined: 08 May 2007 Posts: 26 Location: hyderabad

I know the procedure of using program.

But i wanted to know is there any IBM or any other UTILITY is there to OPEN and CLOSE the VSAM files with out using any Program and DD statements.

expat · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 5:58 pm

If you do not use a program, then you will not process anything.

Take a look at IDCAMS VERIFY

enrico-sorichetti · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 7:52 pm

it happens that utilities are just programs

dick scherrer · Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 10:34 pm

Hello,

If there is no program or utility, what would be served by opening the vsam file in jcl? What purpose to have an unused, open, vsam file?

Do you by chance mean that you want to open some online vsam file(s) via jcl?