What is Empty VSAM file error

praneethgokul · New User Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 20 Location: Bangalore

Hi all,

I have 3 doubts regarding emtpy vsam file

1) What is Empty VSAM file error?

2) When does it occurrs?

3) How to resolve it?

Please Help me

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brain_s390 · New User Joined: 06 May 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Mumbai

Hi Praneeth,

If we attempt to open an empty VSAM file in input mode the pgm will fail.An empty file can be opened for output only. In the output mode the program will write a dummy record to the file & then delete it out.

gnagakishore · New User Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 25 Location: Hyderabad

if u attenpt to open an empty vsam file u will get the error 160.
to over come this write a dummy program which opens it and closes it.