What is the use of VSAM files? How to read this ?

Answer Posted / dinesh

VSAM (or) VIRTUAL STORAGE ACCESS METHOD. it is faster access
to data, when comparing other access methods by the way of
Data sets ORGANIZATION. we can able to insert a records in
good way.records are physical removed while we deleting the
records and we can get the free space.

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