On Wed, 23 May 2018 11:05:29 -0700, Gerhard Adam wrote: >I think the reference may have been to the older SMP CDS which played the role >of the current CSI > The rumor I heard (I wasn't there) is that, prior to VSAM, SMP used a PDS directory as a makeshift data base. Names of members (which needn't actually exist) were limited to 7 bytes in order that the eighth could be used for flags.
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