On Mon, 16 Sep 2013 15:41:33 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >On 9/16/2013 3:04 PM, Mike Schwab wrote: >> That sounds like Virtual Tape Libraries and not AIX or Linux disk file >> systems. > >I'm pretty sure the support is intended to access ordinary FBA disk >files and has nothing whatsoever to do with tape. > >Is there even such a thing as FBA tape? > Probably not for z, but open systems have long supported block-addressable tapes (I used Dectapes on PDP-8 in early 1970s). Often with pre-formatted address tracks.
I suspect the intent is that FBA devices will be allocated long-term to a dæmon (excuse me; I mean STC or FSS or whatever), which will simulate access method and filesystem interfaces, much as OMVS does for HFS. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
