In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/06/2005
at 04:34 PM, Howard Brazee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Is VSAM these days pretty much synonymous with KSDS?
>But over time, I have been finding VSAM being used very little for
>non KSDS, and have seen people referring to VSAM as "IBM's ISAM".
I've seen people referring to disks as drums and to local non-SNA
displays as Bisynch; that tells me more about the people than it does
about the products.
>Of course, in some shops, VSAM is obsolete altogether (except for
>databases that use VSAM that programmers don't see).
There's a lot more VSAM in those shops than what the database uses.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
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