On 10/13/2013 11:44 AM, John Gilmore wrote:
The substance of what he says is a reminder that BSAM and QSAM can read RECFM=U records. This is certainly true, just as it is true that the earth is an oblate spheroid. As he often does, he is here employing an irrelevance to suggest that he has caught a poster, me in this case, in a blunder.
Since we are picking nits, it is commonly accepted that the Earth is pear shaped, rather than an oblate spheroid.
His second assertion, that he has been using 'them', BSAM and QSAM, for decades, is certainly true too. Sequential I/O can scarcely be avoided. It too, however, is irrelevant. He has not been using them to bring load modules or program objects into storage for execution because they cannot be used for this purpose.
While I haven't kept up with what he's doing lately, I have a subroutine (cbt file 860, SUBFETCH) that uses BSAM to bring a load module into storage and execute it. I originally wrote it to test whether a module in storage was altered by loading a second copy, but using the first's relocation factor.
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