Chapter 2. Performance

How can you get most out of your VSAM clusters? How can you improve data storage and retrieval? What parameters can be used when you define a VSAM data set to enhance data access?

This chapter answers these questions and describes the VSAM functions that can enhance performance. Hints and tips are provided to help you implement these VSAM functions. However the specific performance aspects of VSAM RLS and Transactional VSAM are discussed in their respective chapters.

Before we discuss VSAM performance, we first review some performance basics.

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