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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Clark Morris) writes: > There obviously would have to be a co-existence period where both > architectures are supported. VSAM is already FBA as are all of the > newer data architectures. The challenges will be spool, providing GDG > like capability to the VSAM ESDS, moving PDSE read access to the > Nucleus and deciding how to provide the current SYS1.NUCLEUS > capability. Maybe the MVS people should humble themselves and talk to > the VM and VSE people to find out how they solved the problem. re: http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#15 Flash memory arrays http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#16 Flash memory arrays http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/2008b.html#17 Flash memory arrays next week is 40yrs since i started on virtual machines ... i.e. three people had come out from the science center http://www.garlic.com/~lynn/subtopic.html#545tech to install (virtual machine) cp67 at the university (i had already been doing optimization work on os/360 for a couple yrs). >From the original implementation in the mid-60s, both cp67 and cms had been logical fba ... even when using ckd dasd (which effectively hasn't changed .. and subsequently made it trivial to support real fba (3310 & 3370) devices. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html