>>On Wed, 11 Jun 2008 10:41:11 -0500, Rick Fochtman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:_ (mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:) >>IIRC, VSAM and the "VSAM-like" access methods use STARTIO directly. In a message dated 6/11/2008 5:36:57 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >Directly? I thought that the move had been to use the Media Manager. I don't know what "VSAM-like" access methods are. For the last 15 years or so (or more) IBM has used the Media Manager to do DASD I/O in its new, strategic software products (e.g., DB2). VSAM has been an official access method since the introduction of paging operating systems in the mid-1970s. The Media Manager uses STARTIO to do its I/O. Bill Fairchild Rocket Software
**************Vote for your city's best dining and nightlife. City's Best 2008. (http://citysbest.aol.com?ncid=aolacg00050000000102) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
