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balajik
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Post by balajik » Mon Oct 11, 2010 10:27 pm

hi
what the difference between vsam and jcl. why should we go for vsam?
thankyou

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Post by dbzTHEdinosauer » Mon Oct 11, 2010 11:24 pm

vsam is virtual access storage method - a dataset organization


jcl is job control language


you can find easy to read definitions in Wikipedia
or simply google VSAM and google JCL
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Post by Anuj Dhawan » Tue Oct 12, 2010 12:26 pm

And I'd like to ask -- why is this a question at first place?
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