Button 287 "VSAM is the COBOL of Access Methods" was by Tom McSloy at GUIDE in 1975. And COBOL programmers at the time thought that was a compliment!
www.mxg.com/thebuttonman/search.asp Merrilly yours, Barry Merrill Merrilly yours, Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD President-Programmer Merrill Consultants MXG Software 10717 Cromwell Drive technical questions: [email protected] Dallas, TX 75229 http://www.mxg.com admin questions: [email protected] tel: 214 351 1966 fax: 214 350 3694 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of R.S. Sent: Tuesday, December 5, 2017 7:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Since it's Friday I'm not so "young" to remember that, however I vaguely remember I read some VSAM book (bought for many $$$). The book was awfully outdated, so I learned mostly VSAM history and obsolete features. It was ~13 years ago, but I would bet VSAM was born in 1974. -- Radoslaw Skorupka Lodz, Poland W dniu 2017-12-05 o 09:19, Wayne Bickerdike pisze: > VSAM was no later than 1975. I was in a PL/I class at Sudbury in 1975. > Happened to be the week England beat Cyprus at Wembley 5-0 and Malcolm > MacDonald scored all 5 goals. > > Anyway, our teacher at Sudbury asked this question: > > "Why is VSAM like a cow in the middle of a meadow". > > Answer: > > "They are both outstanding in their field". > > 16 April 1975: England's Malcolm Macdonald scores five against Cyprus > > Funny how things stick in your memory. > > We were still ISAM many years later..... > > On Tue, Dec 5, 2017 at 9:00 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > >> ICF came in with DF/EF, which preceded MVS/XA. >> >> >> -- >> Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz >> http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 >> >> ________________________________________ >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf >> of Mike Schwab <[email protected]> >> Sent: Monday, December 4, 2017 4:29 PM >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: Since it's Friday >> >> I think CVOL / VSAM catalogs in MVS was version 1. ICF catalogs >> introduced during XA switchover period is version 2. >> >> On Mon, Dec 4, 2017 at 8:56 AM, R.S. <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> W dniu 2017-12-01 o 21:43, Pew, Curtis G pisze: >>>> This is just a curiosity question, but I’ve wondered about this. >>>> >>>> The JCL reference says: >>>> >>>> All temporary data set names begin as follows: >>>> SYSyyddd.Thhmmss.RA000.jjobname >>>> >>>> Does anyone know the story behind the ‘RA000’ part? It seems unnecessary >>>> and arbitrary. >>>> >>> Well, we used to answer "Frankie did this and he said >> do't change it<< >>> but Frankie died..." >>> >>> BTW: almost every LISTCAT output contains "VERSION: 2" statement. Why >> it's >>> 2? >>> >>> >>> -- >>> Radoslaw Skorupka >>> Lodz, Poland >>> >>> ====================================================================== -- Treść tej wiadomości może zawierać informacje prawnie chronione Banku przeznaczone wyłącznie do użytku służbowego adresata. Odbiorcą może być jedynie jej adresat z wyłączeniem dostępu osób trzecich. Jeżeli nie jesteś adresatem niniejszej wiadomości lub pracownikiem upoważnionym do jej przekazania adresatowi, informujemy, że jej rozpowszechnianie, kopiowanie, rozprowadzanie lub inne działanie o podobnym charakterze jest prawnie zabronione i może być karalne. Jeżeli otrzymałeś tę wiadomość omyłkowo, prosimy niezwłocznie zawiadomić nadawcę wysyłając odpowiedź oraz trwale usunąć tę wiadomość włączając w to wszelkie jej kopie wydrukowane lub zapisane na dysku. This e-mail may contain legally privileged information of the Bank and is intended solely for business use of the addressee. This e-mail may only be received by the addressee and may not be disclosed to any third parties. If you are not the intended addressee of this e-mail or the employee authorized to forward it to the addressee, be advised that any dissemination, copying, distribution or any other similar activity is legally prohibited and may be punishable. If you received this e-mail by mistake please advise the sender immediately by using the reply facility in your e-mail software and delete permanently this e-mail including any copies of it either printed or saved to hard drive. mBank S.A. z siedzibą w Warszawie, ul. Senatorska 18, 00-950 Warszawa, www.mBank.pl, e-mail: [email protected]ąd Rejonowy dla m. st. Warszawy XII Wydział Gospodarczy Krajowego Rejestru Sądowego, nr rejestru przedsiębiorców KRS 0000025237, NIP: 526-021-50-88. Według stanu na dzień 01.01.2016 r. kapitał zakładowy mBanku S.A. (w całości wpłacony) wynosi 168.955.696 złotych. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
