Yes, that was my mistake, I should have said the predecessor to the CSI was the CDS, a PDS data set with that funny character in the member name.
Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer III UF Information Technology East Campus P.O. Box 112050 Gainesville, FL. 32611 (e) [email protected] (p) (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 2:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [External] Old School Maintenance Philosophy -- Never ACCEPT? 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. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
