some vsam(I Q) questions

rambabu · New User Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 67

can any body pls give me the answerS?
1) HOW DO WE READ KSDS USING AIX IN BATCH COBOL/AND CICS?

2)WHAT IS SKIP SEQUENTIAL READ AND HOW BATCH COBOL SUPPORTS IT?
3) CAN I UNCATLOG OR DELETE DATA SET USING DISP PARAMETER OF JCL? HOW?
4) WHAT ARE THE WAY U CAN GET THE ATTRIBUTES OF VSAM FILE WHEN U DON'T HAVE VSAM DEFINE CARD WITH U?
5) VSAM TO DB2 CONVERSTION ?
6) HOW TO ACCSESS ESDS RANDOMLY IN BATCH COBOL?

mdtendulkar · Active User Joined: 29 Jul 2003 Posts: 237 Location: USA

rambabu

Always try to ask questions in small case

1) HOW DO WE READ KSDS USING AIX IN BATCH COBOL/AND CICS?

Ans: Using PATH & Base Cluster JCL (for batch) & FCT entry for Path (for CICS)

2)WHAT IS SKIP SEQUENTIAL READ AND HOW BATCH COBOL SUPPORTS IT?

Ans: Eg. You are processing a VSAM file sequentially, so you have set a point in the file using START and using READNEXT you read the next sequential records

Now if you want to skip some records in between, then you would need to again set up a sequential record pointer using STARTBR and then by using READNEXT / READPREV you can start browsing file from that point

3) CAN I UNCATLOG OR DELETE DATA SET USING DISP PARAMETER OF JCL? HOW?

Ans:

Uncatlg: DISP=(New,Uncatlg,Delete) <-- this will uncatlg the dataset after the normal termination of the step

Delete: DISP=(NEW,DELETE,DELETE) <-- this will delete the dataset after the normal termination of the step

4) WHAT ARE THE WAY U CAN GET THE ATTRIBUTES OF VSAM FILE WHEN U DON'T HAVE VSAM DEFINE CARD WITH U?

Ans: LISTCAT, FILE AID 3.5 option

5) VSAM TO DB2 CONVERSTION ?

Ans: Yes ?? Need more explanation about query??

6) HOW TO ACCSESS ESDS RANDOMLY IN BATCH COBOL?

Ans: Using RBA

Hope this helps

Regards
Mayuresh

rambabu · New User Joined: 18 Apr 2005 Posts: 67

using rba. i want to know more details .pls tell me