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mainframe5
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diffferent between file or dataset

Post by mainframe5 » Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:30 pm

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Post by DavidatK » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:40 am

MF5,

A Sequential flat file is the most basic form of a dataset, however, a dataset file could be VSAM, DLI, etc. which are more considered to be DataBases.

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Post by vanithaaraju » Thu Jan 10, 2008 2:48 pm

Hi,

we call ps and pds(partitioned data set) as flat files since they dont have file manager.
vsam datasets (i.e) ksds,rrds,esds,lds have file manager.

In files we can run jcls but in datasets its not possible.
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