> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Frank Swarbrick > > My mention of being a new z/OS with IMS shop got a few surprised replies, so > I thought I'd give a bit more information... > > We have been a VSE (DOS) shop since at least 1979. (Not sure what we did > before that, but I was only in elementary school at the time...) > > [ snip ] > > Currently we are *considering* moving everything to z/OS. It is by no means > a done deal. But I am tasked with seeing what it will take to move our Cobol > jobs (batch and CICS) to z/OS.
Contact somebody like Gilbert Saint-flour < http://www.gsf-soft.com>. > [ snip ] > > 4) I'm iffy about the lack of "system standard labels" and "partition standard > labels". In some ways I like that the DD statements for all files are > required explicitly. That way you can easily tell what files a job uses. > Then again, for some very commonly used files it might be nice to have > system standard DD names. Loooong time since I worked with VSE, but wouldn't the MVS link list (at least partially) fill that requirement? > [ snip ] > > I guess I may as well get in to our RDBMS issue... [ snip ] > But as you may know, Oracle has "stabilized" their support of z/OS at Oracle > 10.2g. Being back-leveled to much on VSE we have no desire to run in to the > same problem with Oracle. > > Thus, we're back to DB2 on z/OS. Oracle on "z/Linux"? I snipped a lot, but I think you said you have an IFL. -jc- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
