Answer Posted / nihar ranjan karan
There are now 5 variations of VSAM datasets available:
1. ESDS(ENTRY SEQUENCY DATASET)
2. KSDS(KEY SEQUENCES DATASET)
3. RRDS(FIXED RELATIVE RECORD DATASET)
4. VRRDS(VARIABLE RRDS)
5. LDS(LINEAR RECORD DATASET)
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