I give up. <g> Charles
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, May 30, 2018 9:39 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: empty KSDS behavior - why? On Wed, 30 May 2018 06:15:11 -0700, Charles Mills wrote: >Humor me -- I'm not a VSAM guy. Are there really people who are counting on >their COBOL programs blowing up if they fail to do the right juju on their new >VSAM file? > Not COBOL, but from a recent ply: On Tue, 29 May 2018 21:29:25 -0400, Roger W Suhr wrote: > ... >I recently found out that some IBM utilities (IMS DBRC) actually expect a >cluster in "create mode", when switching to a new secondary RECON dataset. If >you provide an initialize cluster, the DBRC utility ABENDS and says the >dataset had been used before and no valid header record could be found. >So I doubt IBM will ever provide an option to do this in the DEFINE command. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
