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>
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
