In a recent note, Rick Fochtman said:

> Date:         Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:11:16 -0500
> 
> I'm looking at the updates I need to keep ARCHIVER up to date and I'm having
> problems finding DOC.  Most specifically, I'm trying to understand the
> differences between "LOAD MODULES" and "PROGRAM OBJECTS" as they are stored 
> in a
> PDS or PDSE. I don't envision updating ARCHIVER to access the "UNIX-like" file
> system of z/OS. Can anyone either point me to, or forward me privately, the
> necessary DOCs?
> 
I thought program objects in the UNIX FS were very similar to
those in PDSE.  How close?  Can /bin/cp move between the two without
exploiting Binder?

> as (possible) access to VSAM clusters of the indexed, sequential and relative
>        I've learned that my compression algorithm can create records longer 
> than
> the original records, so I'm working on a fix for that, as well.
> 
There's no fix for that (think Pigeonhole Principle).  You must be
prepared to tolerate it.

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