Sri, Thanks for the doc. According to the definition of ESDS, the dsn is NONINDEXED. However, when I recataloged the CLUSTER using the NONINDEXED parm the dsn organization is RRDS (I used FileAid as suggested) and not ESDS. Can the RRDS be NONIDEXED and numbered as well
________________________________ From: Sri h Kolusu <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2013 1:03:31 PM Subject: Re: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS Check Section B.2.3 Attributes group to differentiate the VSAM clusters in below link which talks about Interpreting LISTCAT Output Listings. http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2I2A0/B.0? The keywords you would be interested are INDEXED--The data component has an index; it is key-sequenced aka KSDS. LINEAR--The cluster is a linear data set aka LDS NONINDEXED--The data component has no index; it is entry-sequenced aka ESDS. NUMBERED--The cluster is a relative record data set aka RRDS. Sri IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 01/24/2013 09:25:07 AM: > From: willie bunter <[email protected]> > To: [email protected], > Date: 01/24/2013 09:29 AM > Subject: DIFFERENTIATION OF VSAM DSNS > Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> > > Good Day All, > > Is there a way to differentiate or knowing what type of VSAM file it > is. I had a problem earlier trying to RECATALOG the cluster (the > dsn was restored from a physical DFDSS backup) and finally I was > able to do so because I used parm NONINDEXED. Besides trial and > error is there a way of doing this? > > I checked the LISTCAT however I didn't see anything. Any suggestions? > > Thanks > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
