Updating a VSAM file
Tim wrote in with this question recently:
"I need to update a VSAM file on a mainframe connected to an AS/400 -- via TCP/IP. Ideally, I would like to add/delete/update a record on the AS/400 and have the database issue a call to a CICS program on the mainframe, pass data to the CICS program and send a return code to my AS/400 program that the operation completed successfully."
Can you help him out?
-- Debra Tart, associate editor, Search400.com
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December 14, 2005 2:28 PM
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November 21, 2009 9:05 PM
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Optimally, I'd think that you want to mount the file as a remote file on the 400, then use standard record operations to do the job, without involving the program on the Z side.
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Sheldon Linker
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"Remote file" might best be restated as DDM/DRDA. Add the remote database to the database directory (with WRKRDBDIRE). Perhaps a direct update to the remote database would be easier.
Tom
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