In a message dated 7/6/2005 11:35:21 A.M. Central Daylight Time,  
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:

Of  course, in some shops, VSAM is obsolete altogether (except for databases  
that
use VSAM that programmers don't see).



VSAM's being obsolete is like saying TSO is obsolete.  VSAM has  been the 
strategic access method of IBM since the mid-1970s.  It  underlies many other 
structures that programmers also don't see, such as page  data sets and 
catalogs, 
without which z/OS will not run very well or long.   A better term might be 
"non-obvious".
 
Bill Fairchild

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