What exactly is wrong with the ECB/WAIT/POST mechanism? I think it has always worked great. It's got some pretty difficult limitations in cross memory mode (but it still works!), but otherwise I'm not sure where you get "awful".
David Logan -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Henry Willard Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 4:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: How does ATTACH pass address of ECB to child? "Craddock, Chris" wrote: > > As in horshoes? Yes. The ECB is one of the most widely used "tools" in > the system. As a serialization primitive it is just awful, but there's > no getting away from it now. > The ECB might not be perfect, but compared to what you have to put up with on Unix where there are about a half dozen mechanisms which can't be used together, it is downright brilliant. > > CC Henry ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
