If I remember, the PTS still held the sysmods and the ACDS was for the distribution "zone" equivalent.
Sent from my iPhone > On May 23, 2018, at 11:55 AM, Seymour J Metz <[email protected]> wrote: > > The CDS may have been an equivalent to a target zone, but not to the entire > CSI. You won't get very far without a PTS and ACDS. > > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > Nims,Alva John (Al) <[email protected]> > Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2018 2:50 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [External] Old School Maintenance Philosophy -- Never ACCEPT? > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
