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		<title>SJK at 12:46, 2 January 2021</title>
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		<title>SJK at 11:45, 2 January 2021</title>
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&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''[[VSAM]]''' (Virtual Storage Access Method) is a filesystem technology used in IBM mainframes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td class='diff-marker'&gt;&amp;#160;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;td style=&quot;background: #eee; color:black; font-size: smaller;&quot;&gt;&lt;div&gt;'''[[VSAM]]''' (Virtual Storage Access Method) is a filesystem technology used in IBM mainframes.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;
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		<title>Dan Tobias at 20:33, 1 January 2014</title>
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		<title>Dan Tobias: Created page with &quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Filesystem }} '''VSAM''' (Virtual Storage Access Method) is a filesystem technology used in IBM mainframes.  JCL (Job Contr...&quot;</title>
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		<summary type="html">&lt;p&gt;Created page with &amp;quot;{{FormatInfo |formattype=electronic |subcat=Filesystem }} &amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/VSAM&quot; title=&quot;VSAM&quot;&gt;VSAM&lt;/a&gt;&amp;#039;&amp;#039;&amp;#039; (Virtual Storage Access Method) is a filesystem technology used in IBM mainframes.  &lt;a href=&quot;/wiki/JCL&quot; title=&quot;JCL&quot;&gt;JCL&lt;/a&gt; (Job Contr...&amp;quot;&lt;/p&gt;
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'''[[VSAM]]''' (Virtual Storage Access Method) is a filesystem technology used in IBM mainframes.&lt;br /&gt;
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== Links ==&lt;br /&gt;
* [[Wikipedia:Virtual Storage Access Method|Wikipedia article]]&lt;br /&gt;
* [https://sites.google.com/site/cobolmaterial/vasam-tutoriall VSAM tutorial] (actually a bunch of code samples)&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v1r12/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.zos.r12.idad400%2Fdef2.htm Defining a Data Set with JCL]&lt;br /&gt;
* [http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/redbooks/SG246105/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js/html/wwhelp.htm VSAM demystified]&lt;/div&gt;</summary>
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