Answer / sasi kumar

Guys, here RBA has no use it is used in ESDS only . rrds has
rrn ( relative record number) . RBA ( relative byte address
) is used only in esds. correct me if am wrong.

Answer / nandakumar

It is used both in KSDS & EDDS. It is used to determine the
position of the logical record in a VSAM dataset. It is the
phsical location of the logical record contained in a
dataset

Answer / madan kumar

ya nanda is correct, RBA is used to find the displacement of records in both ESDS and KSDS..not in RRDs coz,it is numbered type.

Answer / d.vengatesh

In RRDS, RBA is Relative Byte Address.

Answer / neilsh

RBA stands for Relative Byte address.

It is used in RRDS, it is the relative position of a field
from start.

It is used to read records by adding or subracting value
from RBA address..

can we create PS file using IDCAMS utility?

3 Answers   IBM,

By looking into JCL can we identify the dataset is VSAM (VSAM dataset supposed to be a input dataset).In this scenerio how will we identify the dataset is VSAM ?

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differentiate between sequential files and esds files in vsam?

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What is the maximum record length for the VSAM dataset?

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what is the use of the file status clause in the select statement in vsam?

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can any one tell "in esds in what structure records will stored?"

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During processing of a VSAM file, some system error occurs and it is subsequently unusable . What do you do ?

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what do you mean by gdg in vsam?

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what do you mean by the cobol record key clause in vsam?

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What is the meaning of the DEFINE MODEL parameter?

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Yes. Because the alternate key would first locate the primary key, which in turn locates the actual record. Needs twice the number of I/Os.

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What is a cluster?

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