In <[email protected]>,
on 11/19/2012
at 04:14 PM, "McKown, John" <[email protected]> said:
>Actually, I wish the z/OS people would get off their high horse
>and duplicate the z/VSE feat of allowing a SAM file to be
>accessed as if it were an ESDS VSAM file, using ACBs.
It's the NIH syndrome. DOS/VS, OS/VS1 and TSS/360 all had useful
features that the MVS developers have yet to acknowledge. You are, of
course, correct; a Reverse Compatibility Interface (RCI) would be
useful.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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