How to delete duplicate records from ESDS

vodeti · New User Joined: 19 Sep 2005 Posts: 13

Hi,

how to delete duplicate records from vsam -esds
file?

Bye

vani

ikumar · Active User Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 86

I think, you cannot delete any record from ESDS...

one way you can do it is, copy VSAM-ESDS file back to sequential file(PS file), remove the duplicates and load it back after re-creating the VSAM-ESDS dataset with the same name.

Please let me know if i am wrong or any efficient way to do it...

nitin4.a · New User Joined: 16 Aug 2005 Posts: 27

Hi
the other way round is you can write a cobol pgm to do that

correct if i am wrong

regds
nitin

ikumar · Active User Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 86

it is not possible to delete the records using COBOL program from ESDS file.