For whatever reason, such as insanity?, I have always viewed a VSAM LDS as a "private, permanent" paging space. Similar in concept to using the UNIX shmat() series of functions on a UNIX file to do I/O basically just using paging operations. At times, I wish that using DIV windowing services were "simpler".
On Mon, Apr 21, 2014 at 11:09 AM, Ed Jaffe <[email protected]>wrote: > On 4/21/2014 7:59 AM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: > >> DB2 required greater flexibility and control to achieve its performance >> and data consistency goals than was possible with VSAM keyed-access >> support. A very cursory look at "Experiences Installing Oracle >> Database 10g on z/OS" would suggest Oracle on z/OS makes use of VSAM LDS >> for table storage as well. >> > > As does zFS. > > -- > Edward E Jaffe > Phoenix Software International, Inc > 831 Parkview Drive North > El Segundo, CA 90245 > http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- There is nothing more pleasant than traveling and meeting new people! Genghis Khan Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
