I remember a lecturer at IBM in London 1975 when I was taking a PL/I course.
He asked, "Why is VSAM like a cow in a meadow". Answer : "Because they are both outstanding in their field". Our company was still using ISAM and continued well past 1978. I first encountered VSAM at IBM when I went to work there in 1978. I wasn't sure what all the fuss was about. On Sat, May 25, 2024 at 11:46 PM billogden <billog...@optonline.net> wrote: > > What you described about VSAM is what I heard too, a replacement of the > then dominant access methods. > > > Wow -- I distinctly remember that goal. It really scared many of us > (customers and IBMers) and made some of us aware of the gaps between > "developers" and "users". > > KSDS worked well to replace ISAM (and ISAM is another bad memory!) The > other > VSAM types mostly vanished, although there is a newer one for LINEAR data. > > Some participants here are roughly as old as I am -- with notes about 2311s > and 2314s (and we should probably skip our potential comments about 650s, > 1620s, 1400s, and 709xs)! > > Bill Ogden > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- Wayne V. Bickerdike ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
