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VSAM
Last modified: Thursday, June 06, 2002 

Short for Virtual Storage Access Method, a file management system used on IBM mainframes. VSAM speeds up access to data in files by using an inverted index (called a B+tree) of all records added to each file. Many legacy software systems use VSAM to implement database systems (called data sets).

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VSAM Capabilities and Limitations
IBM page that describes some potential problems with using VSAM including file size limitations.

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Related Categories

Databases

File Management

Related Terms

file management system

journaled file system

legacy application

mainframe

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