Easytrieve Advance Topic File Handling.

VSAM File Creation (Loading)

The FILE statement and the PUT statement are used to create (load) VSAM files. The PUT statement provides for sequential file output to VSAM files.

FILE MASTER FB ( 150 1800 )
             EMP#           9       5     N
             NAME        17     16    A
             GROSS      94      4     P  2
FILE OUTMAST VS ( CREATE RESET )
         JOB INPUT MASTER NAME CREATE-VSAM
          PUT OUTMAST FROM MASTER STATUS
          IF OUTMAST: FILE-STATUS NOT ZERO
          DISPLAY ‘LOAD ERROR STATAUS IS : ‘       +
                          OUTMAST : FILE-STATUS
         STOP
END-IF
         PRINT RPT1
REPORT RPT1
         LINE 1 EMP# NAME GROSS

STATUS

When you specify STATUS, VSAM return codes are returned to the system defined field FILE-STATUS.

FILE-STATUS

FILE-STATUS is a system defined field which you can test to identify the result of a VSAM input / output operation.