There have been a lot of cases where z/OS was behind z/VSE.
First, a CA level backup/restore program for VSAM that was offered to
z/OS but they turned it down. Much faster than EXPORT/IMPORT and even
faster than CA-Faver. We have had it since the early 80's.
Second, we support FBA and SCSI disk.
Third, the JES2 support for virtual printers/punches is missing a lot of
things that POWER on VSE supports. This causes me a lot of work when I
do a z/VSE to z/OS conversion.
Historically, we have had NJE over TCP/IP for many years before it was
added to JES2.
We actually had TCP/IP available on VSE before there was any offering
for z/OS.
We have had real data-at-rest, field level, automated encryption since
2006. (This is actually one of my products.)
Yes, there is a lot of stuff z/OS has that VSE does not, but that does
not mean VSE does not have some stuff z/OS does not have.
BTW, it is my understanding that REXX/VSAMIO on VSE was written by
Boeblingen as a white-room project that did not use any of the Armonk
stuff. Boeblingen had a real sharp REXX developer back in 2001 (yes!
2001, 19 years ago). The z/VSE VSAMIO routine will even read/write CICS
files via cross-partition communications using CICS as a FOR/DOR. And,
it's all IBM code that could be ported to z/OS is the z/OS developers
would get off their high-horses and ask for the code.
Tony Thigpen
Farley, Peter x23353 wrote on 2/28/20 5:11 PM:
Dang it, how is it that the fine VSE developers in Boeblingen can get
permission from Armonk to provide VSAMIO for REXX/VSE but users of z/OS REXX
have to install the open-source RXVSAM package to enable dealing directly with
VSAM files from REXX programs?
<*Grumble*>
Peter
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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Bernd Oppolzer
Sent: Friday, February 28, 2020 4:50 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: VSE related questions
Thank you all for your valuable advice.
I already found many of the answers to my questions, and some books:
REXX for VSE:
https://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=SC33-6642-09
User's Guide for Barnard FTP:
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/s390/zos/vse/pdf3/ipv6vse/iesipu41.pdf
REXX VSAMIO and some examples in the FTP user's guide answered all my questions
a) to d) I will try all this next week at my customer's site.
(both REXX EXECIO and FTP can work with VSE libraries directly, which is still
more interesting for my use case)
Thank you again,
kind regards
Bernd
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