In a message dated 8/6/2008 10:36:19 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >>ISAM. >-----Original Message----- >From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf >Of William Hecox >Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:27 AM >To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU >Subject: Datasets with KEYs >Hi, >I need to create and populate a NON-VSAM Dataset that contains KEYS. >Is there an IBM utility I can use to do this? >Bill ISAM is not an IBM utility. It is an access method which is about to become seriously unsupported by IBM. I suspect you will have to write your own utility whose design is similar to that of IEBGENER; i.e., read one logical record using QSAM from the input file, add that record to the output buffer; repeat until the output buffer is full, then write it to the output file using BDAM (q.v.). Alas, there is no QDAM, so you have to do the blocking on the output side yourself. If ISAM were to continue to be supported, you could write the logical record to the output file using QISAM and your one-time special-purpose utility program would be simpler. But you will still need to write the utility program yourself. Or find it on the CBT, maybe. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software
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