This chapter covers consecutive data set organization and the ENVIRONMENT options that define consecutive data sets for stream and record-oriented data transmission. It then covers how to create, access, and update consecutive data sets for each type of transmission.
In a data set with consecutive organization, records are organized solely on the basis of their successive physical positions; when the data set is created, records are written consecutively in the order in which they are presented. You can retrieve the records only in the order in which they were written. See Table 13 for valid file attributes and ENVIRONMENT options for consecutive data sets.