CICS VSAM Transparency for z/OS, Version 1.2


Other IRD considerations

FBEs may be generic and reused in many fields across many VSAM files. IRDs tend to be very specific to a particular VSAM file.

The two different uses of IRDs illustrated earlier in this section are the two most common uses. There are features of IRD capability that are not used in these two situations.



Concept topic


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