On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 10:17:40 -0800, Skip Robinson wrote: >We ran an inherited ISAM application in the 80s, a true dog. Then we learned >of a VSAM conversion aid that was at the time built in to whatever then >passed for DFSMS. It was magical. Simply convert files from ISAM to VSAM and >point the application to them. The system automatically transformed all ISAM >I/O operations to VSAM and returned data to the application as it expected. >Absolutely no changes to the application. The result was breath taking. > >I'd be curious to know if that conversion aid is still delivered with z/OS.
There are still plenty of references to "ISAM compatibility interface" and "ISAM interface" in the z/OS 2.2 manuals. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
