In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 07/11/2007
at 02:45 PM, "McKown, John" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I'll lay you dollars to donuts that it does NOT happen in z/OS (it is
>already supported on z/VSE, z/VM, and Linux on System z - along with
>FCP DASD support in addition to ESCON and FICON support for Linux
>either in LPAR or on z/VM. z/VM only supports FCP for use by Linux,
>not CMS or itself, IIRC). In any case, too many things would need to
>be enhanced, starting with IPL and NIP processing. Then all users of
>BPAM would need to be PDSE compatable because an old style PDS cannot
>reside on FBA. Or z/OS would need to implement an ECKD on FBA
>emulation within itself.
No. It would need to support a compatibility interface for a BPAM DCB,
but there is no need to simulate ECKD. I would expect those accessing
a PDS with EXCP to be on their own.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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