John Walker wrote: > How does BPAM relate to BTAM? I was looking at this and finding a great > similarity to old-fashioned PC basic dynamic reads. Can this be used on any > modern mainframe?
BPAM = Basic Partitioned Access Method BTAM = Basic Telecommunications Access Method BPAM is still quite viable: http://publibfp.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr/BOOKS/dgt2d4a0/1.1.2.2 BTAM (Baker-TAM) was long ago superseded by VTAM: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_telecommunications_access_method I keep a bound copy of GY30-2001 (OS/360 BTAM Program Logic) on my shelf at work as a sort of joke, but so far nobody (in the applications group at least) gets it! ;-) http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/os/btam/GY30-2001-5_BTAM_Program_Logic_Rel_21_Feb72.pdf
