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No. Because you cannot insert records in an ESDS, also when
you rewrite a record, it must be of the same length. Thus
putting any value for freespace does not make any sense.

What is SHAREOPTS ?

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How Vsam was evolved? What was the equivalent file for ESDS,KSDS and RRDS prior to evolution? What were their disadvantages of those file which leads to evolution of ESDS,KSDS and RRDS files ?

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explain the differences between vsam and non-vsam files

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what will happen when you try to open an empty vsam file in a cobol program for input?

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What are the types of VSAM datasets?

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Is CA(Control Area) is part of CI(Control Interval)

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What is the place for VSAM KSDS?

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what is the RRN for the first record in RRDS?

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what are s0c1, s0c4, s0c5, s0c7 abends?

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FREESPACE can be specified for which type of cluster? a.LDS b.RRDS c.ESDS d.KSDS

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What are all the ways we can create datasets?

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What is the meaning of the DEFINE MODEL parameter?

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