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Pankaj Gupta
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Joined: 07 May 2008
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Location: Bangalore
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| Hello, I am IMS Cobol programmer. I am not understanding exactly CBLTDLI but why do I need using this? IMS database I am thinking is vsam files so can I be using cobol vsam file access instead? It is not working when I am trying. I thanking you all. |
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 Posted: Thu May 15, 2008 3:06 am Post subject: Re: Can I be accessing IMS database with VSAM commands? |
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dick scherrer
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Hello Pankaj Gupta and welcome to the forums,
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| can I be using cobol vsam file access instead? It is not working when I am trying |
No, it is not supposed to work using vsam access from your program. While the data is stored in underlying vsam physical files, they are in a proprietary format and are managed by the IMS database engine.
Your code needs to interface with IMS which will in turn perform the physical i/o.
I suggest you talk with your IMS support people for a few examples of the kind of code you will use to access the IMS data. |
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Bitneuker
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| If you don't want to write a program you might use DLITEST. |
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