Clark Morris wrote:
So the jackasses will have cost the company far more than the 20 million dollars by their opposition. Does anyone really think that 54 gigabytes per volume is going to be other than totally inadequate in the next ten years? Laptops now have 100 gigabytes and up on a single drive. FBA will require major changes to spool management but we might be able to get away from the one track IPL text. I can see various FBA types such as: ones with file systems with all directory/file name/member name information in Unicode, ones with just z/FS or successor file systems and looking like true Unix volumes, and ones that are structured to be only VSAM/PDSE related volumes. There might be other variants once the bottleneck of CKD is broken. MVS might even be able to recognize a DVD.
I agree with you Clark re: the short-sightedness of not supporting FBA in MVS. Because of that dumb decision, z/OS is the only mainframe operating system left in the 21st century that can't handle SCSI. :-( That situation should be rectified!
But, why do you say we need FBA in order to support volumes greater than 54GB? Why can't ECKD be extended to support larger volumes?
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