Since this is an interim state and therefore temporary, you're entitled to do it in the way that makes the most sense to you. In the meantime, just be especially careful when crossing the street so as to dodge the proverbial bus. ;-)
. . JO.Skip Robinson SCE Infrastructure Technology Services Electric Dragon Team Paddler SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager 626-302-7535 Office 323-715-0595 Mobile [email protected] From: John McKown <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Date: 07/19/2011 02:15 PM Subject: Re: restricting how I do things so that others understand? Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> Not converting VSAM to something else. Doing some mass migrations, one file at a time, from Data Accelerator compression to SMS compression. Which requires: (1) EXPORT vsam cluster; (2) remove from Data Accelerator; (3) add to SMS compression (using special data class); (4) IMPORT the vsam cluster; (5) rebuild any AIXes and PATHs. I wanted to use UNIX just to simplify my coding so that each function on each cluster went into a unique UNIX file whose name made the function obvious. such as: export.my.vsam.file import.my.vsam.file def-aix-path.my.vsam.file buildixs.my.vsam.file or maybe put the function at the end of the name instead of the beginning. On Tue, 2011-07-19 at 13:40 -0700, Skip Robinson wrote: > I have a question no one seemed to ask: why the war on VSAM? There was > time back in the Dark Ages when nobody trusted VSAM, but I think we're > past that. It's free. It's pretty versatile considering that you can chose > between sequential data or indexed data with just a few definitional > parameters. What's the beef? > > . > . > JO.Skip Robinson > SCE Infrastructure Technology Services > Electric Dragon Team Paddler > SHARE MVS Program Co-Manager > 626-302-7535 Office > 323-715-0595 Mobile > [email protected] -- John McKown Maranatha! <>< ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
