On Mon, 21 May 2012 22:29:47 +0200, R.S. <[email protected]> wrote:
>I just found a job with DEFINE CLUSTER ...OWNER(...) parameter. > >Just curious: >What is the meaning of the owner field in VSAM ? > To identify the owner. :-) Didn't you RTFM? Seriously, it is an optional "comment" field. There is a product from Innovation called IAM (you've probably heard of it) that uses (or at least can use) that field as a way to identify IAM files when the define is run - OWNER($IAM). At least that was the way it worked when I used it 25 years ago. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
