Reading a DUMMY VSAM file in Easytrieve Plus Report Generator program

Products

• Easytrieve Report Generator

Issue/Introduction

Getting an error trying to access a VSAM file when DD DUMMY is assigned to it. 

761 *******A011 VSAM - xxxxxx    ERROR - FILE xxxxx  - CODE 021(15) , 

Environment

Easytrieve Plus Report Generator, release 6.4
Easytrieve Report Generator, release 11.6

Resolution

The Easytrieve code does not support dummy VSAM files.
However, if you code DEFER on the file statement, you can read in a dummy file.