What is VERIFY command ? when do you use this command??
What actually it does ??
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Answer / abhushan
The VERIFY command is used to close those files that are
kept open after the abnormal termination of
the file.
It also brings the index component in sync with the data
components and updates the catalog
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Answer / ravikumar
This parameter is used to verify the physical existence of a
vsam file and close the file if it is not previously closed.
The syntaz is VERIFY FILE(<ddname>)
or
VERIFY DATASET(<dataset name>)
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