Having suggested ISAM, tongue in cheek, I should submit a serious proposal. Depending on the needs of your resulting application (maybe it's all batch ??) , any sequential disk file can have "keys" in a logical sense if you can exploit the features of DF/SORT and its SPLICE capability.
Is there a possibility to create VSAM RRDS ? -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve Comstock Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2008 10:56 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Datasets with KEYs William Hecox wrote: > 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 > Only supported access method for non-VSAM data sets with keys is BDAM, and you have to write your own code. Kind regards, -Steve Comstock The Trainer's Friend, Inc. 303-393-8716 http://www.trainersfriend.com z/OS Application development made easier * Our classes include + How things work + Programming examples with realistic applications + Starter / skeleton code + Complete working programs + Useful utilities and subroutines + Tips and techniques ==> Check out the Trainer's Friend Store to purchase z/OS <== ==> application developer toolkits. Sample code in four <== ==> programming languages, JCL to Assemble or compile, <== ==> bind and test. <== ==> http://www.trainersfriend.com/TTFStore/index.html <== ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
