Re: concatenation of multiple physical file members?

[Wayne McAlpine <wayne.mcalpine@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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)