differentiate between sequential files and esds files in vsam?



differentiate between sequential files and esds files in vsam?..

Answer / Priya Singh

Sequential files are used for read-only access, with records written to the end of the file. ESDS (Extended Sequential Set) files support both read-only and read-write operations, as well as allowing multiple users to access the same dataset simultaneously.

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