Cary:

You wrote:

>We've recently upgraded a third party payroll package on our development
>machine. This required setting up new tables which are included in a
single
>Image dataset. We're getting ready to run the upgrade again ( for practice
>before upgrading our production machine) on the developmnent machine, but
we
>would like to avoid re-doing all the table entries again. And those same
>tables will be used on the production machine as well. So here's my
>question:  What's the best way of storing/restoring that dataset?  We're
>running MPE/ix 5.0 with Adager.
>I know that you can  STORE the db and RESTORE individual datasets, but I'm
>concerned that I might get into trouble with the root file.  The payoll
>folks suggested a procedure to use Query to save the dataset entries to a
>file and use Dbgeneral to write the info back into the dataset, but we
don't
>have that option.
>
>Thanks for any help....Cary Marshall

I have a COBOL program that will read QUERY SAVEd files and DBPUT the data 
into the dataset and database of your choice.  If you would like a copy of 
the program, I can (hopefully) email it to you (we don't have Web access 
nor a Web presence nor FTP access).  I use it all the time to save data 
sets when testing so I can always restore the data sets I want back to a 
known condition.  It runs on our 918 running 5.5 pp0 just fine.

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