What is an RBA in rrds? What does it do? What is it used for?
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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.
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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
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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.
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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..
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