Diffence between two CICS READ ; FILE & DATASET

Hi,

I am a newbie in CICS COBOL. I came across two possible syntax to read
a file from a CICS program. The two syntax that I came across were

EXEC CICS
READ DATASET ('RASSPLSW')
INTO (RASSPLSW-RECORD)
RIDFLD (W-USERID)
RESP (W-RESP)
END-EXEC.


EXEC CICS
READ FILE('RASSPLSW')
INTO(USRRECC)
RIDFLD(CURRUSR)
END-EXEC.

The two syntax mainly differ only in the use of FILE || DATASET. I
would like to know this diffence...

Thanks alot for your valuable time.

Regards,
Praveen.

.

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