On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 22:41:34 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In <[email protected]>, on 02/07/2012 > at 09:03 PM, Clark Morris said: > >>4. Restrict the FBA devices to FBA data architectures (VSAM, PDSE, >>HFS, zFS, any other FBA architecture. Thus no QSAM, no BSAM, no PDS, >>no BDAM, no traditional Spool. > >How do you plan to access the PDSE if not BSAM and QSAM? It might be >desirable to have ACB/RPL access, but a DCB compatability facility is >needed for existing code. > BSAM and QSAM can read and write UNIX files and BPAM can read them (and write shouldn't be too difficult). None of these depend on CKD.
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