# How to work with VSAM files?

**URL:** <https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-work-with-vsam-files/61166>\
**Category:** Forum\
**Tags:** Adabas-Natural, Natural, Natural-on-Mainframes\
**Created:** [June 26, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-work-with-vsam-files/61166 "2006-06-26T19:53:05Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![Rafael](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/4da419/32.png) [@Rafael](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Rafael)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2006, 7:53pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-work-with-vsam-files/61166/1 "2006-06-26T19:53:05Z")

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I need to work with VSAM Files in Natural.

How I must declare my archive? DDM? But the presented options are Adabas/XMS/SQL…

And before?  
I need to declare a view in my program?

Tks…

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**Author:** ![Wilfried\_B](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/techcommunity/user_avatar/techcommunity.softwareag.com/wilfried_b/32/83_2.png) [@Wilfried\_B](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/u/Wilfried_B)\
**Post date:** [June 27, 2006, 12:51pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-work-with-vsam-files/61166/2 "2006-06-27T12:51:53Z")

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Here you can find the[documentation](http://techcommunity.softwareag.com/ecosystem/documentation/natural/nat421mf/dbms/nvs-over_1000.htm#spyanchor0)!

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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, 2:40pm UTC](https://techcommunity.softwareag.com/t/how-to-work-with-vsam-files/61166/3 "2021-04-02T14:40:43Z")

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