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Explain what is is an alternate index in VSAM?
Answer :An alternate index in VSAM is

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another file related to the cluster, but sorted

using an alternate key that can have
duplicates.
Explain the process of creating an alternate
index?
Answer :You use the IDCAMS utility with the
DEFINE AIX option after you build the cluster and then do another IDCAMS with the

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BLDINDEX option to populate the alternate index.

Can you tell me what is the parameter in the DEFINE AIX option that is used to determine
the maximum number of duplicate keys allowable?
Answer :We can use the RECORDSIZE parameter to determine it. There are 2 numbers that
follow this: the 1st is the average and the 2nd is the maximum. The values are equal to 5 +
(cluster key length) + N*(alternate key length), where N is the allowable number of
duplicates.

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Can you name a few common VSAM status codes.

00-OK
02-READ a duplicate alternate key

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22-trying to WRITE a duplicate primary key

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23-record not found while doing a READ

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97-file integrity verified, do an IDCAMS VERIFY

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Explain what do you meany by buffering and how does it apply to VSAM files.

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save CPU time and disk space. Morever, extra buffers may save elapsed time since the
program does not have to wait for an I/O to complete for it to continue processing.
In JCL, you specify BUFNI (number of index buffers) and BUFND (number of data buffers) as

For random access, the BUFNI is one more than the number of index levels and a

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BUFND of 2 is fine.

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For sequential access, a BUFNI of 1 and a minimum of 5 for BUFND is fine.

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sub parameters of the AMP parameter.

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For dynamic access, the values of each is the higher of the numbers for either random
or sequential.

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