You can use DDM record access methods and DDM keyed access methods to access the following record files.

• Record access methods can be used with these record files: SAM data sets; VSAM ESDSs, RRDSs, and VRRDSs; PDSE members and PDS members.
• Keyed access methods can be used with these record files: VSAM KSDSs and DDM AIFs.
• Record and keyed access methods can only be used with record files and they cannot be used to access stream files. The stream access method can be used with stream files and with record files. Stream access to record files is described in Stream Files and Stream Access.