By seeing the file itself how can we identify whether it is
A vsam file or flat file
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Answer Posted / prameela
BY seeing file we can say whether it vsam file or flat file(PS file)
if VSAM file will have below things
KSDS
1.name of the file
2.In the name of the file last qualifier will have data as qualifier
3.will have word index as last qulifier in the name of the file
Esds,RRDS,LDS will have only 1 and 2 specified in the above
FLat file will have only name of the file
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