- What is a cluster
- What is the index set
- What is a sequence set
- What is the catalog
- What is an alternate index
- What is a CA, control area
- What is a CI, control interval
- What are the types of VSAM datasets
- How VSAM datasets are cataloged
- What do you mean by RDW in VSAM
- How do you convert flat files to VSAM files
- What is the maximum no. of records that can be allowed in VSAM
- Why we use export-import utility in VSAM
- What is the maximum record length for the VSAM dataset
- What is the difference between CI and CA
- What is free space
- What is a VSAM split
- What is the base cluster
- What is IDCAMS
- What is a VSAM slot
- What is the VSAM-code field
- What is File Status in VSAM
- What is the COBOL RECORD KEY
- Explain the meaning and syntax for the START command
- What is the meaning of dynamic processing
- How are records stored in an ESDS, entry sequenced dataset
- What do you mean by dirty read
- What is the procedure for running the batch job in mainframe
- What is the upgrade set
- What is a path
- What is the meaning of the DEFINE MODEL parameter
- What is the significance of the SHAREOPTIONS parameter
- What are the three levels of definition for the VSAM DEFINE
- What's a LDS (Linear Data Set) and what's it used for
- What is the utility program closely associated with VSAM
- What is the purpose of the FILE STATUS clause in the SELECT statement
- What are the distinctive features of a KSDS (key sequenced dataset)
- There are atleast seven IDCAMS commands; name and explain each of them
- what is the ORGANIZATION for a KSDS
- hat are the three possibilities for ACCESS
- What does a file status of 02 on a VSAM indicate
- What is shareopts
- How do you define a KSDS
- How do you define an ALTINDX
- How do you use ALTINDXs in batch, CICS programes
- What is the meaning of each of the values in SHAREOPTS
- How do you define a GDG
- How are different versions of GDG named
- How do you load a VSAM data set with records
- What is the difference between sequential files and ESDS files
- What is the meaning of VSAM RETURN-CODE 28
- How many Alternate Indexes you can have on a dataset
- How do you initialize a VSAM file before any operation
- How do you calculate record size of an alternate cluster
- Do primary key values have to be unique
- Do alternate key values have to be unique
- What is RECOVERY and SPEED parameters in DEFINE CLUSTER command
- Name some common VSAM error conditions and codes
- What will be the condition code returned to the operating system
- What happens when you open an empty VSAM file in a COBOL program for input
- How do you fix the problem associated with VSAM out of space condition
- What is reuse parameter
- What is a Base Cluster
- what is the RRN for the first record in RRDS
- What?s the biggest disadvantage of using a VSAM dataset
- How many buffers are allotted to VSAM KSDS and ESDS
- How many times secondary space allocated
- What is an alternate index and path
- What is the Difference between LDS & ESDS
- How to delete a member using JCL
- What does the KEYRANGES parameter
- How many cluster index can have in a table
- How you view the VSAM file
- What are the different types of VSAM files available
- How to creating new version of GDG with out loosing the data in peeves GDG version
- Why open extend is not possible in RRDS VSAM file
- When CISZ is declared as 4096 at cluster level
- How do I declare the KSDS VSAM
- Can we copy a sequential file to a VSAM file
- What will happen of the size of the sequential file is bigger than that of the VSAM
- How did you refresh a VSAM file and how frequently you do it
- How to create syntax for a VSAM file
- What is VERIFY command and when do you use this command
- Is a delete operation possible in an ESDS
- What?s the device independent method to indicate where a Record is Stored
- Describe SHAREOPTIONS parameter (SHR) in Define Cluster command
- What are the optional parameters to the input dataset While loading the empty cluster