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  3. May 2007

Re: concatenation of multiple physical file members?

Do you want to read the members sequentially, i.e., all the records in MBR1, then all the records in MBR3?

Michael Rosinger wrote:
List,

We have a situation where programs read as input parameters records from specific members in the same physical file. There are cases where there are *common* parms that are relevant to more than one program. What I would like to be able to do is to concatenate more than one physical file member in the CL so that the COBOL program *thinks* it is reading a single file.

Something like this perhaps?....

OVRDBF FILE(PARMS) TOFILE(MNR/JOBPARMS) MBR(DMS200-100) *CONCAT*
OVRDBF FILE(PARMS) TOFILE(MNR/JOBPARMS) MBR(DMS200-ALL)
CALL PGM(DMS200)

. . . . .

OVRDBF FILE(PARMS) TOFILE(MNR/JOBPARMS) MBR(DMS800) *CONCAT*
OVRDBF FILE(PARMS) TOFILE(MNR/JOBPARMS) MBR(DMS200-ALL)
CALL PGM(DMS800)


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