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This week: IBM's introduction to MVS/ESA, submitted by Tony Davison of Itsa.

'Each consists of a Basic Catalog Structure (BCS) which is a VSAM KSDS and one or more VSAM volume data sets (VVDS) which are VSAM ESDSs. There is a VVDS on each DASD volume where VSAM data sets are allocated.'