On 11 Sep 2013 13:59:52 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >I had begun to think that my experience with PDSEs was somehow >atypical, too lucky, because I had not encountered the grievous >problems that featured in others' war stories. > >I therefore spent a long afternoon trying to reproduce and clear some >of these problems. My experience was much like Mark's. The problems >reported here did---some of them anyway---occur; but they were readily >cleared away. > >I conclude that this is a problem of a different sort. Some people >will continue to use PDSs, 3270 emulators, and the like until they are >pried, irrelevantly, from their cold dead hands. > >They are and should be free to do this, but it needs to be understood >that no technical argument will avail against their rooted >preferences.
While I have been away from systems programming for over a decade, I am appalled to see that a PDSE still cannot contain SYS1.LINKLIB, SYS1.LPALIB and SYS1.NUCLEUS. Whoever came up with the idea that a major access method should be done by a started task should be consigned to the same hell as the person who decided that local SNA 327X devices could only be accessed though VTAM thus requiring shops to have 2 BiSync 327x controllers for console availability. Would anyone care if NIP took a cylinder, 2 cylinders or even 100 cylinders. If started task is a good idea for PDSE, it should be equally good for VSAM. At least code to read PDSE's should be available to NIP and maybe SYS1.NUCLEUS. Clark Morris > >John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
