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Selva-kumar
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Joined: 01 Mar 2007
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Location: chennai
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Hi,
For closing and opening CICS VSAM files, i used to enter into CICS region and give the command,
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| CEMT SET FIL(VF*) CLO |
- For Close
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| CEMT SET FIL(VF*) OP |
- For Open
I like to know whether this can be done in a batch mode. Is there any IBM utility available to do so. |
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Robert Sample
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If you have access to the console commands, you can issue ONE of them in a batch job. However, since all console commands are executed independently of the batch job execution, entering both of them in a single job accomplishes nothing.
Many sites have written programs using the CICS API to perform this task. Check with your site support group to see if your site is one of them. If so, use it after talking to your site support group about the syntax and format of the command(s) required. There are also commercial products availabe to do this; your site support group would know if your site happened to purchase one of them. |
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Selva-kumar
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Hi,
Our site dont have any programs to do this task.
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If you have access to the console commands, you can issue ONE of them in a batch job.
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Could you please tell me how to issue one of these two in a batch job. Its ok if i could accomplish the close operation in batch mode. |
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Robert Sample
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| // COMMAND 'F <region name>,SE FI(VF*) CLO DIS' |
Note that closing the files in CICS does NOT deallocate them from the region, so if your batch job needs exclusive access to the files you must also include the DIS.
This is documented in the JCL Reference manual which can be found by clicking the Manuals link at the top of this page. |
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Jose Mateo
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Location: Puerto Rico
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Good day to all!
At my site we have a product from McKinney called MTPBATCH which is a utility program to execute CICS commands from batch. Last thing I did with MTPBATCH was to set some files to read-only with just one MTPBATCH command, I think that was very cool. |
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Bill O'Boyle
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Location: Atlanta, Georgia, USA
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At one time, IBM offered a non-supported (as in "free") Supportpac, named "CSF1", which can be used as a template for Opening/Closing Files from Batch, via EXCI, but they pulled it.
I do have a copy of "CSF1" and if you'd like, send me a private message if you're interested.
Mr. Bill |
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