And, not as well known and not documented, all volumes other than the first volume are released.
Tom Harper IMS Utilities Development Team Neon Enterprise Software Sugar Land, TX -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rick Fochtman Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:59 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: initialize (reset) file --------------------------------------<snip>---------------------------- --- 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? ---------------------------------<unsnip>------------------------------- 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. -- Rick -- Remember that if you're not the lead dog, the view never changes. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
