Graham; Yes, it could be converted to a PDSE. It does not appear that even VLF can be used "simply" by creating a class for the object and then activating that parmlib member. It appears that the application must be modified to use the VLF macros to define and connect to the object.
It is vendor product code that is accessing the dataset so changing code is not possible. I am assuming from that sparse response on this list that VLF/DLF expertise is still being "grown". An interesting, funny, sidelight is one of their previous system programmers had put SYS1.IMAGELIB in the linklist "to take advantage of the VLF/LLA performance improvement. I don't have any data as to whether there were any actual performance improvements for SYS1.IMAGELIB doing this. I would be able to tell in one day if there were improvements doing this for the customer PDS (and no it does not contain any executable code). I have read everything that is available not on VLF install and planning and it is still ambiguous on if it can be used to cache datasets for general across the board access. any info appreciated. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
