Virtual Partitioned Access Method. See 
<http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/tss/GC28-2056-2_Time_Sharing_System_Data_Management_Facilities_Dec77.pdf#page=21>
 and 
<http://bitsavers.org/pdf/ibm/360/tss/GC28-2004-6_Time_Sharing_System_Assembler_User_Macro_Instructions_Nov79.pdf#page=14>


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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of 
Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, July 16, 2021 2:41 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Mixing C/C++ with LE-conforming IBM HLASM

On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 13:26:51 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:

>If he's concerned with a concatenation then he won't be using the dsname form.
>
>fopen("//DD:SYSLIB")
>
If SYSLIB is a concatenation of PDS[E] (and possibly UNIX directories), what
subsequent operations on the returned (FILE *) object are supported by the
C/C++ RTTL?

BTW, what's VPAM?  I found a Bitsavers document that doesn't make it obvious
why it's better than BPAM.

Some programmers wish for QPAM, supporting BLDL, GET, NOTE, etc.

-- gil

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