I think the MQ group might still be able to help.. 1) Why do you not want to DEL/DEF the VSAM, it would be the best
2) Have you reviewed the available utilities available to MQ to see if any of them could assist 3) Which MQ datasets? Page? Other? Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Donald Likens > Sent: Saturday, September 16, 2017 8:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: re-Initialize different types of VSAM files > > This is for MQ but really not related. MQ has a number of VSAM files. I need > to make these files empty for an upgrade so I can reformat them. I want to do > this without deleting and reallocating them. These are linear and KSDS VSAM > files. I tried allocating a new Linear VSAM file and REPROing it over... Did > not work. I tried reproing an empty non-vsam file over... It did not work. > > I don't have a utility that will edit VSAM anyhow some are very big. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
