File Control Table Update FCT Entries in DFHDRDAT

Introduction

The resources used by the Micro Focus Enterprise Server, Mainframe Subsystem Support (or ES/MSS) is stored in the resource definitions file (DFHDRDAT). This file is a Micro Focus Key-Sequenced-Data-Set. This utility program (CASRDTUP) provides a batch process for updating the File Control Table (FCT) entries.

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Programming Objectives

This example illustrates the following functions.

Programming Input and Output

Adding a new FDT entry or updating an existing FCT entry is a three step process within a single Windows Command File. The 1st Step does the preparation work by setting the environment.

The 2nd step uses the Micro Focus supplied utility program (CASRDTUP) to post information to the DFHDRDAT file. The following shows the command line syntax for the Micro Focus utility program. The value of %RDTFILE2% is the location and name of the input file.

C:\SIMOSAM1\DEVL\LOADLIB>casrdtup /f%RDTFILE8% /rSIMOCICA /xdat /q /op"c:\SimoSam1\DEVL\sys1\CONFIG"

The following shows an example of the input for adding or updating a single FCT entry using the Micro Focus utility program.

DEFINE FILE(CUSTMAST) GROUP(SIMOGRPA)
DESCRIPTION(Customer Master, File Control Table)
       DSNAME(SIMOTIME.DATA.CUSTMAST) STATUS(ENABLED) OPENTIME(STARTUP)
       RECORDFORMAT(F) ADD(YES) BROWSE(YES) DELETE(NO) READ(YES)
       UPDATE(YES) RECOVERY(BACKOUTONLY) _FILETYPE(KSDS)
       _MAXRECLEN(512) _MINRECLEN(512) _KEYPOSITION(1) _KEYLENGTH(12)
       _STARTEMPTY(NO) _DUPKEY(NO)
       _PATH(c:\SimoSam1\DataLibA\Dyn1\SIMOTIME.DATA.CUSTMAST.DAT)
       _FILEEXT(DAT) _USECATALOG(YES) _COLLSEQ(ASCII)

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Programming Overview

The following is a flowchart of the job for executing the program to compare the contents of two data files.

Step 4 of the preceding flow chart uses the Micro Focus supplied utility program (CASRDTUP) to update the FCT information in the resource definition file.

CMD for Batch Execution

The following (CSDFCTE8.cmd) is a sample of the Windows CMD needed to run this job.

@echo OFF
rem  * *******************************************************************
rem  *               CSDFCTE8.CMD - a Windows Command File               *
rem  *         This program is provided by SimoTime Technologies         *
rem  *           (C) Copyright 1987-2019 All Rights Reserved             *
rem  *             Web Site URL:   http://www.simotime.com               *
rem  *                   e-mail:   helpdesk@simotime.com                 *
rem  * *******************************************************************
rem  *
rem  * Text   - Glance at the CSD Information for FCTs.
rem  * Author - SimoTime Technologies
rem  * Date   - January 24, 2006
rem  *
rem  * The 1st step will Prepare the environment.
rem  *
rem  * The 2nd step will update FCT information from DFHDRDAT.
rem  *
rem  * The 3rd step will perform End-Of-Job processing.
rem  *
rem  * *******************************************************************
rem  * Step 1 of 3,  Prepare the environment...
rem  *
     set CmdName=CSDFCTE8
     call ..\Env1BASE %CmdName%
     if "%SYSLOG%" == "" set syslog=c:\SimoLIBR\LOGS\SimoTime.LOG
     set JobStatus=0000
rem  *
     call SimoNOTE "*******************************************************%CmdName%"
     call SimoNOTE "Starting CmdName %CmdName%, V08.06.05, User is %USERNAME%"
     set RDTFILE8=%BaseLib1%\CSD\SIMOTIME.FCT.RDTFILE8.TXT
rem  *
rem  * *******************************************************************
rem  * Step 2 of 3, Post the FCT Information to the DFHDRDAT File...
rem  *
     call SimoNOTE "StepInfo Create Record Sequential files"
     casrdtup /f%RDTFILE8% /rSIMOCICA /xdat /q /op"c:\SimoSam1\DEVL\sys1\CONFIG"
rem  *
     if exist %RDTFILE8% goto :EojAok
     set JobStatus=0010
     goto :EojNok
rem  *
rem  * *******************************************************************
rem  * Setp 3 of 3, End of Job Processing
rem  *
:EojAok
     call SimoNOTE "Finished JobName %CmdName%, Job Status is %JobStatus% "
     goto :End
:EojNok
     call SimoNOTE "ABENDING JobName %CmdName%, Job Status is %JobStatus% "
:End
     if not "%1" == "nopause" pause

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