Murach's Mainframe COBOL: Chapter 19

Murach's Mainframe COBOL
Chapter 19	How to use Access Method Services to work with VSAM files
	How VSAM manages data sets	548
	The Integrated Catalog Facility (ICF)	548
	Control intervals and control areas	550
	Free space and record additions for a KSDS	552
	How a record in a KSDS is randomly accessed by a key	554
	How alternate indexes work	554
	Introduction to Access Method Services	556
	Some commonly used AMS commands	556
	The JCL requirements for using AMS commands	558
	The syntax requirements for AMS commands	558
	How to use the DEFINE CLUSTER command to define a data set	560
	Parameters that identify a data set	562
	Parameters that describe the data set's characteristics	564
	Parameters that allocate space to the data set	566
	Other DEFINE CLUSTER parameters	568
	How to use the LISTCAT command to list catalog information	570
	How to identify the entries you want to list	572
	How to limit the amount of information that's listed for each entry	572
	How to use AMS commands to print, copy, and delete data sets	574
	How to use the PRINT command to print a data set	574
	How to use the REPRO command to copy a data set	576
	How to use the DELETE command to delete a data set	578
	How to define and build an alternate index	580
	How to use the DEFINE ALTERNATEINDEX command	580
	How to use the DEFINE PATH command	582
	How to use the BLDINDEX command	584
	Perspective	586
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