On Fri, 20 Feb 2009 09:08:11 -0600, Tom Marchant <[email protected]> wrote:
>On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 21:54:15 -0600, Mark Zelden wrote: > >>VSAM catalogs haven't been used in 20+ years. > >Actually, we used one as recently as 10 years ago. It was used to share >data between MVS and VM. In particular, an ACF2 data base. I think there >might have been something else, but I forget what. > >IIRC, support for VSAM catalogs was dropped at the end of 1999 because they >are not Y2K compliant. > >-- Yea... I should have said "generally used". And perhaps slightly less than 20 years. In an offline conversation I just had with Art, I had to look back at my resume to be sure. My first exposure to MVS was MVS SP 1.3 in 1985 - an "express" system. It had an ICF MCAT, but I also recall a few VSAM catalogs on the system. Otherwise I would have never learned about the joys of vsam catalog volume ownership and defining vsam space. Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group - ZFUS G-ITO mailto:[email protected] z/OS Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.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
