What is VERIFY command ? when do you use this command??
What actually it does ??

Answer Posted / ravikumar

This parameter is used to verify the physical existence of a
vsam file and close the file if it is not previously closed.

The syntaz is VERIFY FILE(<ddname>)
or
VERIFY DATASET(<dataset name>)

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