Product Description
Book Description
This short book has just one purpose: to teach you everything you need to know to handle VSAM files in your COBOL programs. Concepts and terms, COBOL elements for all types of VSAM data sets, alternate indexing and dynamic access, I/O error handling, the AMS utility, JCL for running programs, VS COBOL II considerations...and nothing more!
Synopsis
This book teaches you all you need to know to handle VSAM files in your COBOL programs. To make learning easier, this book contains dozens of examples of COBOL programs, JCL listings, and AMS job listings. So you'll see how the various language elements interrelate. And you'll have plenty of practical models to use when you're working with VSAM on your own.