How many buffers are allotted to VSAM KSDS and ESDS?



How many buffers are allotted to VSAM KSDS and ESDS?..

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2 data buffers by default for ESDS. For KSDS it allots 2
data buffers and 1 index buffers. each buffer is about 4k.

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