Audience:

VSAM tutorial will be useful for anyone, be in a student, a software Engineer or anyone who is serious towards mastering the VSAM in Mainframe. Also, This VSAM tutorial will be helpful to mainframe programmer to increase their level of expertise in VSAM.

Pre-requisites:

There are no prerequisites for this VSAM tutorial. If you have prior knowledge on JCL or COBOL, then it will help you to understand VSAM better but you can still learn VSAM easily without any prior understanding of JCL or COBOL.

Would you like to learn JCL ? Go to JCL Tutorial

Would you like to learn COBOL ? Go to COBOL Tutorial

After completing the VSAM tutorial, you will be able to:

• Explain VSAM dataset concept and functionalities

• Describe VSAM types and its uses.

• Able to explain the IDCAMS utility and its command used for VSAM datasets.

Topics covered in VSAM Tutorial:

1. VSAM Introduction
2. VSAM Components
3. VSAM Control interval and Control Area
4. VSAM Catalog
5. VSAM Access Method Services
6. VSAM Define Cluster Syntax
7. VSAM Delete Cluster Syntax
8. VSAM Entry Sequenced Dataset(ESDS)
9. VSAM Key Sequenced Dataset(KSDS)
10. VSAM Relative Record Dataset(RRDS)
11. VSAM Alter Command
12. VSAM Repro Command
13. VSAM Listcat Command
14. VSAM Examine Command
15. VSAM Verify Command
16. VSAM Alternate Index
17. VSAM File Status