Lovely VSE...I am still working on different VSE projects and I am sirry about no Java available. Would be a great improvement...Talking about VSAM, you know just think about Clusters.. Indexes.. Record keys.... Lol RegardsDan
Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Saturday, February 29, 2020, 1:01 AM, Bernd Oppolzer <bernd.oppol...@t-online.de> wrote: Very interesting, all that. I am living just about 10 km from Boeblingen. I was a MVS guy until some weeks ago (well, I worked with VSE in the early 1990s, but never since). I almost never had the need to deal with VSAM files, because all my customers used DB2. Now, all is different. I feel suddenly pushed back in the 1990s :-) 30 years younger :-) Couldn't imagine that my questions would start such a discussion :-) Have a nice day, thank you Bernd Am 28.02.2020 um 23:58 schrieb Tony Thigpen: > Just for the record, the REXX developer for IBM in 2001 was Ursula > Braun-Krahl. I believe she retired. > > Tony Thigpen > > > > Tony Thigpen wrote on 2/28/20 5:51 PM: >> 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 >>> >>> >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On >>> Behalf Of Bernd Oppolzer >>> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2020 4:50 PM >>> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU >>> 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 >>> <Snipped> >>> -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
