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5.2 VTOC/Catalog Activity Information Area Files


This section identifies each file in the VTOC/Catalog
Activity Information Area and defines its levels of
summarization and data sequencing.  Also, it presents the
list of available data elements for each file.

The files maintained in the VTOC/Catalog Activity
Information Area include:

    1 - Data Set Allocation File (VCADAA)
    2 - VSAM Data Set Allocation File (VCA_VS)
    3 - Volume Allocation File (VCAVOA)
    4 - Data Class Summary File (VCADCS)