On Wed, 29 Jul 2015 22:57:53 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote:
>On 2015-07-29, at 15:59, Staller, Allan wrote: > >> PATH does not equal ALIAS in VSAM... >> >How are they different? In my experience they're just commands >with different names that do the same thing. A VSAM PATH _can_ be the same as a non-VSAM ALIAS. However, it also can be different. For keyed VSAM files, if you specify the PATHENTRY keyword when defining a PATH, you can specify that the PATH should use an alternate index. At that point, if you open the PATH instead of opening the CLUSTER you will have the same data, but in a different order. -- Walt ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
