how to know whether vsam dataset have been populated and del

jkbytes · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 9:39 am

Hi ,

Without opening a VSAM file is it possible to know that whether any data has been ever populated into it, or whether no data has ever been populated using the LISTCAT. If so how?

Thanks & Regards.

JKBYTES

SteveConway · Posted: Thu May 26, 2005 7:18 pm

On a LISTCAT against the VSAM dataset, look at field REC-TOTAL to see if there are records in the file. To see if it has ever been used, look at HI-U-RBA. (This is not necessarily true of all files, as an application may initialize or in some other way allocate all space.)

Cheers,,,Steve

jkbytes · Posted: Fri May 27, 2005 9:02 am

Hi Steve,