What is a CI, control interval?

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What is a CI, control interval?..

Answer / guest

A control interval is the unit of information that VSAM
transfers between virtual and auxiliary storage.

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What is a CI, control interval?..

Answer / ram

C.I: where the records are inserted in VSAM,which has 4
components viz; 1.)FREE SPACE 2.)DATA 3.)RDF 4.)CIDF

C.A: Have more than one C.I(Control Interval).

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What is a CI, control interval?..

Answer / sandhya

it is a place where you can store data.it contains a
LR,RDF,CIDF,LMT,RMT.and unused space only for ksds.

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