> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2005 5:43 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Bigger Libraries (was: Re: Extent SMPPTS Question) > >
<snip> > Ah! You expect an IBM product to make the transition to a > superior technology. Clearly SMP/E saw advantages to UNIX > filesystems for NTS (not to minimize the troubles reported > previously in this list when doing enormous RECEIVE FROMNETWORK). > > But I always seek the global solution rather than the local. > This is a problem for DF/SMS, not SMP/E. BPAM support for > reading UNIX directories already exists; the remaining > deficiency is write support and that newfangled replacement > for BLDL (the memory is the second thing to go). Ah! DESERV. > Completing BPAM support for UNIX would relieve SMP/E of > most of the coding. > > -- gil I agree that updating BPAM to fully support a UNIX subdirectory in read/write mode would be the best thing since sliced bread. However, not being privy to the internals of BPAM, I cannot comment on how easy/difficult this would be to accomplish. And SMP/E has a proven need, today, for a very large SMPPTS environment. So it might be easier to get a business case for updating SMP/E than DFSMS. <observation type="tacky"> Given some of the back-and-forth here about DFSMS, it sometimes appears that the DFSMS people have an agenda which is not always comprehensible to us on the outside. </observation> -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer UICI Insurance Center Information Technology This message (including any attachments) contains confidential information intended for a specific individual and purpose, and its' content is protected by law. If you are not the intended recipient, you should delete this message and are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, or distribution of this transmission, or taking any action based on it, is strictly prohibited. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
