INSERT

The INSERT primary command provides the capability to insert an occurrence of the specified segment into a database. CHILD is not a valid object keyword with INSERT. Multiple INSERT primary commands can be specified in a single execution.

MAXIMUM

Defines the number of segments to insert. See MAXIMUM Keyword for a complete description of this keyword.

number Number of segments to insert. Valid only with segments that have non-unique keys or are unkeyed.

If specified on non-unique segments:

MAX can specify a number greater than 1.
The segments with the same data values are inserted the specified number of times.

If specified on keyed unique segments, MAX cannot specify a number greater than 1.

SET

Defines the initial values for specific segment fields to be inserted through the specification of COBOL, PL/I, or DBD field names. See SET Keyword for a complete description and examples of how to use the SET keyword.

For information about the processing of variable length segments, see Variable Length Segments.

Examples

The following INSERT statement inserts a customer segment into the customer database. Fields not supplied in the SET keyword are initialized to the default value for the field type.

TYPE   RUN;
PSB    PCB=4 XREF=CUSTXREF;
TITLE LINE01=’INSERT NEW CUSTOMER WITH CUSTOMER NUMBER 11573’;
INSERT SEGMENT=CUSTOMER
         SET=(CUST-NUMBER=11573,
              CUST-NAME=’PARADISE VALLEY CONSTRUCTION, INC.’,
              CUST-STATUS=A,
              CUST-SALES-ZONE=8,
              CUST-SALES-REGION=22,
              CUST-TOTAL-SALES=1234500,
              CUST-PRODUC-IND=X’B3’);

The following statement inserts one customer segment and a customer address segment using the input PDS member ISRTCUST.

TYPE   RUN;
PSB    PCB=2 XREF=CUSTXRF2 LANG=PLI;
TITLE LINE01=’INSERT NEW CUSTOMER AND CUSTOMER ADDRESS’;
SET    INPUT=ISRTCUST;
INSERT SEGMENT=CUSTOMER MAX=1
         SET=(CUST_NUMBER=INPUT(10,6,C),
              CUST_NAME=INPUT(16,32,C),
              CUST_SALES_INFO=INPUT(48,52,C))
       SEGMENT=CUSTADDR
         SET=(CUST_ADDR_KEY=INPUT(100,4,C),
              CUST_ADDR_ADDRESS=INPUT(104,40,C));

The following statements delete customer 10529 and all its children and then inserts the customer segment.

TYPE   RUN;
PSB    DBNAME=CUSTPDBD;
TITLE LINE01=’DELETE CUSTOMER 10529 AND THEN REINSERT CUSTOMER 10529’;
SELECT SEGMENT=CUSTOMER
         WHERE CUST-NUMBER=10529
  DELETE SEGMENT=CUSTOMER
INSERT SEGMENT=CUSTOMER OPTION=PATH
         SET=(CUST-NUMBER =10529,
              CUST-NAME=’ALL-STAR CARPET CLEANING’);

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