What is Control Interval, Control Area in VSAM?

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What is Control Interval, Control Area in VSAM?

Post by Krishna » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:42 pm

What is Control Interval, Control Area in VSAM?

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Post by Krishna » Sun Jul 19, 2009 8:42 pm

Control Interval is analogous to a physical block for QSAM files. It is the unit of i/o. Must be between 512 bytes to 32 k. Usually either 2K or 4K. A larger control interval increases performance for sequential processing while the reverse is true for random access. Under CICS when a record is locked, the entire CI gets locked.

Control area is a group of control intervals. CA is used during allocation. CA size is calculated based on the allocation type (cyl, tracks or records) and can be max of 1 cylinder

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