I'm curious about something. Does the ECKD dasd give us the ability to have fixed record lengths and blocksizes? Can you do that in Unix and Windows?
It just seems to me that the file system in z/OS compared to the file systems on Unix and Windows is a lot more robust. My feelings may be predicated on the fact that z/OS is what I grew up with. But then, seeing as everything runs on FBA dasd, it seems like a lot of extra overhead to translate back and forth. Eric Bielefeld ---- "McKown wrote: > > Only z/OS is stuck on ECKD formatted DASD. z/VM and z/VSE can both run > on FBA. z/LINUX can run on FBA and/or on SAN/SCSI DASD. I think that the > latest z/VM can also run on SAN/SCSI connected DASD as well. z/OS > remains the hold out. For whatever reason that may be. > > -- > John McKown > Senior Systems Programmer > HealthMarkets > Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage > Administrative Services Group > Information Technology -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Aviva USA Des Moines, Iowa 515-645-5153 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
