[Default] On 21 May 2017 13:28:35 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
[email protected] (Jesse 1 Robinson) wrote:

>RACF data base is not required to be PSU. PS with RECFM F is fine. RACF 
>predates VSAM. 
>
Since VSAM came in with virtual storage, are you saying RACF was on
OS360?

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>-----Original Message-----
>From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On 
>Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
>Sent: Sunday, May 21, 2017 12:20 PM
>To: [email protected]
>Subject: (External):Re: Sample JCL for file transfer using NJE/TCPIP
>
>On Sun, 21 May 2017 05:12:00 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
>>
>>>RACF (I'm less sure) is VSAM. 
>>
>>No, it is PSU (PS and Unmovable). Other attributes are mandated by IBM.
>> 
>"Unmovable" would seem to imply uncopyable; the copy would have to go in a 
>different place.  But there must be some provision for backing it up, and 
>little point in trying to move it to another system with such as FTP.
>
>Why not VSAM?  Performance?  Antiquity?  It feels as if RACF has a built-in DB 
>engine.
>
>-- gil
>
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