Monday, March 5, 2012

VSAM FILE CREATION in FILE-AID

 Type 3, on Mainmenu of FILE-AID  
 The following screen will be displayed 
 
  FILE-AID ------------------  EXTENDED UTILITIES  ------------------------------
 OPTION ===>                                                                   
                                                                                
  1  LIBRARY       - DISPLAY AND MODIFY DIRECTORY ENTRIES; DISPLAY LOAD         
                     MODULE CSECT MAPS; BROWSE, DELETE, RENAME PDS MEMBERS      
  2  DATASET       - DISPLAY DATASET INFORMATION; ALLOCATE NON-VSAM DATASETS    
                     AND GDGS; CATALOG, UNCATALOG, DELETE, OR RENAME DATASETS   
  3  COPY          - COPY ENTIRE DATASETS; COPY SELECTED RECORDS; COPY PDS      
                     MEMBERS BASED ON NAME, STATISTICS AND/OR CONTENT           
  4  CATALOG       - DISPLAY GENERIC CATALOG ENTRIES OR VSAM DATASETS ON A      
                     VOLUME IN LIST FORM AND DO DATASET LIST PROCESSING         
  5  VSAM          - ALLOCATE, DISPLAY, DELETE, MODIFY, OR RENAME VSAM CLUSTERS,
                     ALTERNATE INDEXES, OR PATHS; MANAGE IAM FILES              
  6  SEARCH/UPDATE - FIND AND CHANGE ACROSS PDS MEMBERS.  SEARCH FOR AND/OR     
                     UPDATE DATA GLOBALLY IN ANY TYPE OF DATASET.               
  7  VTOC          - DISPLAY AND PROCESS DATASETS ON A VOLUME(S)                
                                                                                
  8  INTERACTIVE   - EXECUTE FILE-AID/BATCH                                     
  
                       
      
 Use option 5 to ALLOCATE, DISPLAY, DELETE, MODIFY OR RENAME VSAM CLUSTERS 
 type 5 
 Followig screen will be displayed, 
  FILE-AID ---------------------  VSAM UTILITY  ---------------------------------
 OPTION ===> A                                                                  
                                                                                
    A     - ALLOCATE CLUSTER                   D  - DELETE                      
    S     - ALLOCATE DATASPACE                 DR - DELETE/DEFINE               
    X     - ALLOCATE ALTERNATE INDEX           T  - DELETE DATASPACE            
    B     - BUILD ALTERNATE INDEX              P  - ALLOCATE PATH               
    BLANK - DISPLAY DATASET INFORMATION        R  - RENAME COMPONENT            
                                               M  - MODIFY COMPONENT            
 SPECIFY DATASET INFORMATION:                                                   
    DATASET NAME           ===> 'SSEE.SETW47.XXXX.XXX.XXXXREAD'
    VOLUME SERIAL          ===>          (REQUIRED FOR OPTIONS S & T)           
                                                                                
 PROCESS ONLINE OR BATCH   ===> O       (O = ONLINE; B = BATCH)                
                                                                                
 SPECIFY MODEL DATASET INFORMATION:                                             
    DATASET NAME           ===>                                                
                                                                                
 SPECIFY CATALOG TO USE IF OTHER THAN DEFAULT SYSTEM CATALOG:                   
    CATALOG NAME           ===>                                                
    CATALOG PASSWORD       ===>          (IF CATALOG IS PASSWORD PROTECTED)     
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 Using above screen, We can ALLOCATE, DELETE, MODIFY VSAM DATA SETS
 If you have any questions on FILE AID. You can post them on FILE AID forum. 
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