A programmer has posed this question to me. My response, so far, has been "no way". But I'll ask the truly knowledgeable here.
We have a KSDS with an AIX. The data in the field which defines the alternate keys is sometimes "unknown" and coded as LOW-VALUES (0x00's). Well, this has lead to a problem where the number of base records for the "unknown" value is often quite huge and exceeds the maximum allowable record size on the AIX. This causes the base record add or update to fail. What the programmer wants is a way to tell VSAM that if the AIX key is 0x00s, that it is not necessary to update the AIX at all. I cannot think of any way to do this. Any clever ideas? -- 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
