On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:55:40 +0200, Itschak Mugzach <[email protected]> wrote:
>John, > >Write a small rexx program that will read the number of records from the >catalog and then generate the appropriate IDCAMS control cards ;-) No empty >files, exact number of control cards, faster IO. > >Itschak > I was thinking of sequential files, not VSAM. There are no record statistics in the catalog for sequential files. Also, I have had a few times when the record statistics are just flat-out wrong. Catalog statistics are not guaranteed to be accurate. IIRC, if you update a file in a program and that program abends before closing the VSAM file, the statistics are not written back to the catalog. Unfortunately, we seem to live in this environment. -- John ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
