A zero-PDS system? On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:54:00 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: > >Can PDSE be in the linklist or lpalist? If not, this is like IBM not >having a way for SNA channel attached 3270s as console devices because >VTAM was set up as a started task. If PDSE is a basic access method, >somehow having it as a started task seems weird to me. Is PDSE a >reliable access method now with no greater error rate than PDS? > In contrast, in a Galaxy Far, Far Away, I was amazed to see OpenSolaris boot from ZFS (very different from zFS; GIYF). I mentioned this to a Solaris developer who said, "Oh, sure; it just takes about a quarter megabyte support code in the boot record." If IBM had a similar level of commitment to PDSE it would be possible to IPL a system with _no_ PDS; only PDSE (or even only zFS (that one)).
But it all depends on proper layering; it would require that very early in Nucleus Initialization components begin using access methods, not STARTIO nor RYO channel programs. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
