On Tue, 11 Aug 2009 16:59:52 -0500, Rick Fochtman <rfocht...@ync.net> wrote:
Ok. I didn't word things very clearly. >... >>QSAM handles individual members just fine so FIND, READ, WRITE >>and STOW are working under the covers. Seems like that covers >>most of the functions. Here I was just trying to say that the basic functions worked under QSAM. I should have addede "to be built on and/or improved in a QPAM". >>I haven't written anything using BPAM since the mid '80s ... Keep that in mind! >>.... Did BPAM have an easy way to do an "update in place"? >>If so, I could have lived without that in QPAM. I assume there must >>have been more significant reasons than that. I thought BPAM had an update in place, but I wasn't sure. I was just trying to say that I would have accepted a QPAM even if that function couldn't be provided. Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
