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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