On Tue, 20 Jul 2021 01:51:32 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> Writing multiple members of a PDSE (not PDS) concurrently >Who said anything about concurrently? Consider a program to create sequence >numbers in every member (or remove them). > I did: On Fri, 16 Jul 2021 18:32:51 -0500, Paul Gilmartin ...
>> Too often, "is for" is a feckless apologia, paraphrasing "can only ... >> although it would be nice ..." > >The problem isn't that BSAM doesn't handle logical records, the problem is >that QSAM doesn't handle repositioning. The distinction between READ and GET >is a legitimate one. > There ought to be a synthesis of their two capabilities. >> Was there a similar analogue for NOTE? >Sort of, with limitations. > For VISAM, it might suffice to record the sequence number. >> Did the TSS assembler(?) use those? >I believe that all of the compilers, including ASM (F), supported reading >source from VISAM with sequence numbers as keys. > An irritant to modern languages such as Rexx and C which prefer RECFM=VB, unnumbered. >> (What became of the tradition of ">" quotation marks? I faked them.) >I'm using a brain-dead e-mail client. I have to handle quoting by hand. > At times I circumvent such problems by posting from the Web interface. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
