# How to find the VSAM file name ???

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-find-the-vsam-file-name/76491>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [April 4, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-find-the-vsam-file-name/76491 "2008-04-04T12:33:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sridevi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7bcc69/32.png) [@Sridevi](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Sridevi)\
**Post date:** [April 4, 2008, 12:33pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-find-the-vsam-file-name/76491/1 "2008-04-04T12:33:49Z")

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Hi,  
I have the list of DDMs… From the DBID i can segregate the DDM into Adabas,DB2,IMS or VSAM.  
But is there some method to identify the VSAM file name using DDM name

Say for eg; my DDM name is WPULXXX;the respective VSAM file is ZSQ.WPULXXX.KSDS

Regards  
Sridevi

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**Author:** ![Daniel\_Wilson](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/94ad74/32.png) [@Daniel\_Wilson](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Daniel_Wilson)\
**Post date:** [April 5, 2008, 12:32am UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-find-the-vsam-file-name/76491/2 "2008-04-05T00:32:16Z")

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This would have to be your own shop standard. There isn’t anything in Predict or Natural that forces a convention like this.

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/original/3X/c/d/cd19967bb605d28a72d77eb83a1cae22f3df2eb8.svg) [@system](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [April 2, 2021, 2:49pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-find-the-vsam-file-name/76491/3 "2021-04-02T14:49:19Z")

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