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by **ramikh86** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 7:55 pm

Hello everybody,
we are working on a sanitization solution, a customer asked if we can process VSAM files. we use .Net for our solution and is supports VSAM processing but we need a VSAM file. Please if you can give me a VSAM file to test on it would very much appreciated.

Thanks

by **steve-myers** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 8:03 pm

I'm kind of confused. As I understand it, .net applications run in Windoze. How is a Windoze application going to process a VSAM data set on a mainframe???

by **Robert Sample** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:28 pm

You need to more clearly define what you want. If you need access just to VSAM data, you can get an unloaded (sequential) file of data. If you want access to an actual VSAM file, you need access to the particular mainframe where the VSAM file is located (and getting access to a mainframe can be a non-trivial process) before you can even talk about getting access to the VSAM file (which, again, may be a non-trivial process depending upon the security policies of the mainframe site).

by **c62ap90** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 9:32 pm

I assume you need a keyed VSAM file? Here is an example Delete-Define-Load of a VSAM file with a key of 9-characters and record-length of 80-characters. I'm just guessing what you need.

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//XXXXXXXX JOB ...
//*-- STEPS: STEP010 - DELETE AND DEFINE KSDS VSAM FILE
//*-- STEP020 - LOAD KSDS VSAM FILE
//*-- NOTES: - RECSZ IS FILE SIZE; EXAMPLE IS 80-CHARACTER FIXED
//*-- - KEYS IS SSN BEGINNING IN COLUMN 1 (OFFSET ZERO)
//*-- - ".CL" IS VSAM CLUSTER DATASET NAME
//*----------------------------------------------------------------
//*
//STEP010 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUD DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSIN DD *
DELETE XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.CL -
CLUSTER -
PURGE
DEFINE CLUSTER -
(INDEXED -
NAME (XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.CL) -
OWNER (USER001) -
UNIQUE -
) -
DATA -
(NAME (XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.DATA) -
OWNER(USER001) -
TRK(030,015) -
RECSZ (80,80) -
CISZ (4096) -
KEYS (9 0) -
SHR (2 3) -
) -
INDEX -
(NAME (XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.INDEX) -
OWNER (USER001) -
TRK(5,3) -
CISZ (1024) -
SHR (2 3) -
)
/*
//*-----------------------
//STEP020 EXEC PGM=IDCAMS
//SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSUDUMP DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUD DD SYSOUT=*
//SYSOUT DD SYSOUT=*
//FILEA DD DSN=YOUR.FILE.HERE,
// DISP=SHR
//FILEB DD DSN=XXXXXXXX.XXXXXXXX.CL,
// DISP=OLD
//SYSIN DD *
REPRO -
INFILE(FILEA) -
OUTFILE(FILEB)
//

by **BillyBoyo** » Tue Mar 12, 2013 10:06 pm

If you have something which supports VSAM files, then you need to find out how to use define a file and put some data into it. No-one can "give" you a VSAM file which you'd expect to be able to just copy onto your non-mainframe system and it would work with what you have.

by **ramikh86** » Wed Mar 13, 2013 2:54 am

.Net in windows has an add-on to process VSAM files as they say in MSDN documentation.
as you say VSAVM files must be generated in an IBM enviroment, it cannot be transfered into windows platform as lets say oracle database files ?!
sorry for lake of experience in this topic.

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