On Wed, 25 Mar 2009 17:55:12 -0700, Raymond Noal <[email protected]> wrote:
>Frank, > >Since I'm only somewhat dangerous with VSAM and even less informed in IMS, does not the IDCAMS DEFINE for a VSAM file give you an empty/initialized VSAM file? Isn't there an end-of-file at the very beginning of the file created by DEFINE? Yes indeed. The issue here is reloading the database from a backup. IMS requires that the index portion (and the "database" portion if using VSAM instead of OSAM) be "empty". The only ways to empty it are delete and redefine the VSAM file used by the index database (which is what I am trying to avoid), or to "initialize" the index database file (which is what I am trying to do.) Frank ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
