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How does CA-Easytrieve Plus handle invalid file reference abends?

April 26, 2017abends ca-easytrieve file invalid Plus Reference

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How does CA-Easytrieve Plus handle invalid file reference abends?

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In order to prevent invalid file reference abends from occurring, CA-Easytrieve Plus 6.3 provides a test for an empty VSAM file. This highly requested and important functionality allows users to control whether or not to abend when a CA-Easytrieve program attempts to open an empty VSAM file. Before this enhancement, there was no way to test for this condition and consequently, to prevent abends, programmers had to code workarounds (such as provide a non-empty VSAM file with at least one dummy record).