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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?
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No. That would require IDCAMS to OPEN the file, which it doesn't.
A REUSE-able file, when OPENed with RESET, gets a EOF mark at the
beginning and the high-used RBA is set to zero.
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