In <1336770284.12924.20.camel@localhost>, on 05/11/2012
at 05:04 PM, David Andrews <[email protected]> said:
>So expanding the max number of generations much past 255 is
>problematic with the current key design. I guess IBM could walk
>in a new catalog format (by e.g. allowing more than one GDS per
>extension record), but I wouldn't look forward to all the
>coexistence woe that might provoke.
Hence my "wouldn't be trivial." But it would certainly be easier than,
e.g., the migration from VSAM catalog to ICF catalog. Anybody here
remember how smoothly DF/EF came out.
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