VSAM linear doesn't have records, variable or otherwise. It's an undifferentiated list of pages. You map it into your address space and copy data to it. If the OP wants to process those data in his program then he needs to copy them in whatever format his program expects.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> Sent: Monday, April 1, 2019 4:41 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Sysadata to linear You come up with the darnedest things! IDCAMS REPRO would be my first thought, but I don't really know. There is nothing special about a SYSADATA file. So the requirement is simply QSAM VB to VSAM Linear. I have a bunch of experience processing SYSADATA but zero with VSAM Linear. Can VSAM Linear not be variable -- is that the incompatibility? What is the business problem? If we take one step back from "VB to Linear" where are we? Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Joseph Reichman Sent: Monday, April 1, 2019 11:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Sysadata to linear Hi I’m trying to repro a VB sysadata file to linear file and am getting incompatible input Has anyone done this I would like to use the sysadata in a dataspace ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
