Chapter 2. Managing your VSAM data sets

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Managing your VSAM data sets

This chapter provides practical tips about the daily maintenance of your VSAM data sets. This chapter includes the following sections:

•Reorganization considerations

•Sharing VSAM data sets

•Extended format

•Extended addressability (EA)

•Catalog Search Interface

•Major sources of VSAM processing options

•Media Manager, Open, Close, EOV in VSAM

•VSAM and 64 bits in real storage

•Special considerations for COBOL users and SMB

2.1 Reorganization considerations

Reorganizing a non-sequential data set achieves these goals: ...

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