LDS – Linear Data Set

• An LDS dataset is similar to ESDS in terms of organization.
• A linear data set (LDS) contains data that can be accessed as byte-addressable strings.
• In LDS, Control Interval size must be multiples of 4096 bytes
• LDS have only data component.
• LDS CI does not have control information and thus CI do not maintain CIDF or RDF
• Thus, all bytes are data bytes.
• Mostly used by DB2, which is IBM’s primary relational management system
• You specify the LDS organization with the IDCAMS DEFINE command specifying the LINEAR parameter.
• Below figure depicts internal organization of LDS