On 13 Sep 2013 14:04:56 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >There is a case to be made for making PDSE support available earlier, >even very early, and even if it is initially rudimentary (like the >quondam very-early-in-the-initialization-process support for reading >only unblocked card images from a PDS member).
IF (caps intentional) the z series AND z/OS are to have a long term future, the z series must support the fastest fiber protocol (see Lynn Wheeler's posts on the subject) and FBA (support that SHORT SIGHTED BEAN COUNTERS vetoed according to Lynn). A GDG facility would need to be added to ESDS processing. PDSE would have to function for ALL library data sets. Non-FBA data architectures would have FBA equivalents and all data architectures would have to be supported at IPL time. Clark Morris > >That case is that as things now stand both PDS support---long in the >tooth and radically unsatisfactory in many ways---and PDSE support >must go forward together forever. > >Getting rid of PDSs finally and definitively would be highly >desirable, but there is no likelihood of any such IBM action in the >proximate future. > >John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
