On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 20:58:32 -0500, George Henke wrote:

>IBM was about to sunset VSE a few years ago until it found out that in
>mainland China, VSE was the operating system of choice.
>...
>Unfortunately, it has always lacked at least one major control block, the
>DEB and so tech support has always been shackled with the burden of manually
>keeping track of every cylinder and track.
>
???

I was aware of the deficiency some decades ago.  I'm not
sure what it has do do with DEB; it seems to be more related
to the DSCB in the VTOC.  And I thought it was merely that
VSE development abdicated the responsibility of automating
DADSM.

>Though now it has been mitigated.
>
At last?

-- gil

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