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Volume Table of Contents

In the storage architecture of OS/360 and successors, CMS, and DOS/360 and successors, the Volume Table of Contents (VTOC) is a data structure that provides a way of locating the data sets that reside on a particular DASD volume. With the exception of the IBM Z compatible disk layout in Linux on Z, it is the functional equivalent of the MS/PC DOS File…

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OS/360 and successorsCMSDOS/360 and successorsData setsDASD
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Data Set Control Block types

Y2K
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  • Y2K Year 2000 problem

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Volume Table of Contents

Nodes23
Edges22
Triples0
Avg. degree1.91
Density0.086957
Components1

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vtoc volume data dasd format set dscb os location ibm 360 disk contain dos dscbs sets first storage successors table

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