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-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Tony Thigpen [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2020 5:51 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: VSE related questions - VSAMIO on VSE 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 <[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 > <Snipped> > -- > > > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If > the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
