Open, close & read the VSAM file using REXX

muralithirumalaisamy · New User Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 12 Location: chennai

Can anyone help me on giving the commands in REXX to open, close and read a VSAM file.

Thanks
Murali

Aaru

Murali,

superk

See some of these previous topics:

http://www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=29638
http://www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=24906
http://www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=22770

agkshirsagar · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:11 pm Post subject:

http://www.ibmmainframes.com/viewtopic.php?t=29638

This link points to a similar topic discussed on the forum. This may help.

Anuj D. · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 6:20 pm Post subject:

Hi,

I'm just starting with REXX. However, unless things have been changed recently, there isn't a way to do it with native REXX.

You may want to check out REXX/Tools by a company called Open Software Technologies

http://www.open-softech.com/

And as Aaru said, a simple solution is to use REPRO. This code reads on record from a VSAM parameter file. Somethinf like -

Garry Carroll · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 7:06 pm Post subject:

Try googling RXVSAM

Garry.

dick scherrer · Posted: Tue Aug 12, 2008 9:21 pm Post subject:

Hello,

If your vsam file is large (say several million records), copying it to a qsam file just to make the data available to rexx sounds like a questionable (at best) idea. This will waste considerable system cycles as well as a bunch of dasd. . .

Maybe that data should not be processed by rexx directly? Maybe rexx could call some "service module" (cobol?) and read the necessary record(s) passing back the needed info to rexx.