I can vouch for 'modern CA1' - I went through merging tape databases for several LPARs into one shared tape database, then after that was able to do maintenance taks without outage.
re: BSAM vs. VSAM vs. whatever. It would be nice if products which used "databases" used a standard API (such as SQL) and we could use whatever database we had already licensed for the underlying storage of the information. I mention SQL because it is extremely common, ODBC would be another choice - as long as it is _standard_ . Tools would then not have to include 'database management' (although I realize that's a 'sunk cost for CA1) - saving some development cost for vendors and customers could manage the databases with familiar tools. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
