On 31 Oct 2008 05:37:11 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >> -----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?
Standard labels which can be either for a given partition or for the system are effectively DD statements available to each job step in the partition or entire system without having to be coded. They can be overridden by specific DLBL statements in the job. > >> [ 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
