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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

