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I am using the OLD IMS Data Dictionary facility to create a new PHIDAM DBD which will be a HALDB. All of our databases are all built using the data dict but I am having problems getting the 'DATASET' statement omitted from my DBD. When I try to leave the field blank (shown below) I get errors on my DBDGEN. I know I can edit the DBD and linkedit it into our DBD.LIB but I need to use the data dictionary as all of our DBDGEN panels point to it. Documentation for the Data Dictionary is non-existent on the web unfortunately and frankly this is a bit frustrating. Any hints or work-arounds? Anyone with data dictionary exp around?

ACCESS=(PHIDAM,VSAM)
9 DATASET DD1=,
DEVICE=
10+ 8,DMAN360 - DATASET STMT IS INVALID FOR ACCESS=PHIDAM DBDS.
SEGM NAME=EGPOAP01,
PARENT=0,
BYTES=550,
PTR=(TB)
FIELD NAME=(XOWNACT#,SEQ,U),
BYTES=14,
START=1,
TYPE=C
FIELD NAME=IOLGRNAM,
BYTES=30,
START=26,
TYPE=C

Hello and welcome to the forum,

Is this data dictionary part of the IMS product or is it an add-on?

If you run some report from the dd, what is shown as the version/release/copyright info?

Add-on:

The dd you mention may have been replaced by VisualAge DataAtlas.

See if this IBM Redbook provides any lead:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg244862.html

One more time:

If you scroll down this page, there are multiple publications for the dd:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/data/db2 ... brary.html

Thanks for the info but I've checked those links and they do not work at present. The DD facility came with our release 3 of IMS I believe, no one here has been around that long so this is a guess.

Hello,

but I've checked those links and they do not work at present.

Does this mean the links were not active or that the info is too new? Yup, i'd believe that for v3, it would be hard to find material.

You might contact IBM and ask how much of the replacement tool could be used. . .