On Mon, 11 Jul 2005 17:32:57 -0300 "Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
:>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/10/2005 :> at 10:16 AM, Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: :>>What device dependence do they have (except for BDAM with TTR)? :>Aside from that, Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play? That's a pretty big :>exception. You never heard of block addressing? :>>You will have to explain that. :>Multiple concurrent strings of sequential access from random locations :>is an obvious example of VSAM functionality missing from BDAM. You can do that in BDAM. :>>We were discussing the advantages that VSAM has, not the advantages :>>that QSAM/BSAM/BDAM have. :>Indeed, and in the cases that I've looked at BDAM doesn't look so hot; :>in fact, even BSAM (with MACRF=RP) is sometimes better. About the same. -- Binyamin Dissen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
