What is IDCAMS? and what is the purpose of it?

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What is IDCAMS? and what is the purpose of it?..

Answer / guest

IDCAMS is an access method services utility used for
creating, deleting, altering VSAM files and copying
sequential file to a VSAM file, etc.

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What is IDCAMS? and what is the purpose of it?..

Answer / ram

IDCAMS is an AMS(Access Method Services) command used to
handle VSAM and Non-VSAM data sets.

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What is IDCAMS? and what is the purpose of it?..

Answer / ram

IDCAMS utility is used to define and manipulate VSAM and
NON-VSAM datasets.

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What is IDCAMS? and what is the purpose of it?..

Answer / vinay

IDCAMS utility used forVSAM only

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