1. delete is not possible in esds. why?
2. i have 10 records in a esds file and i want to delete
only 1st record ..then what i have to do?.. it will not
affect any sequence of the RBA.
3. why open extend is not possible in rrds vsam file?

Answer Posted / guest

1) The ESDS organization will not allow you to delete the
record.

2) Using FileAid, copy first 09 record into other data set.
Which means that the new file contains only 9 records(10th
record is deleted0

3) Hope that you can use EXTEND

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