In article <bl0pr05mb5156a82f34b040fc3e93cd0899...@bl0pr05mb5156.namprd05.prod.outlook.com> you wrote: > Does SAS/C actually open as BPAM and use point, or does it just stuff the > member name in the JFCB and use BSAM/QSAM?
Yes, POINT, STOW, etc. etc. > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz > http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 > ________________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > Don Poitras <[email protected]> > Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2020 4:57 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: strange python announcement > In article <[email protected]> you > wrote: > > On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:52:50 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: > > >xSAM? I don't know of any language on z/OS* other than HLASM that supports > > >BPAM. > > > > > I believe that SAS/C (ISV) support{s|ed} a construct such as fopen( > > "DD:"ddname"("member")", ... ); > > presumably employing BPAM. > Yes, SAS/C uses BPAM. > > And early in the development of the QSAM/BSAM interface to allocated > > HFS files the facility was referred to as xSAM. The name was deprecate > > as an overload. > > >At this point, if I invest the time to master** a new language, I'd be > > >looking at Java, Ruby or Rust rather than Python. > > > > > >* Assembler E, F, XF, H and H V2 don't count; they're not supported. It > > >might, however > > > be fun to see if thy will still run. > > > > > >** I mean a lot more than just Hello world > > -- gil -- Don Poitras - SAS Development - SAS Institute Inc. - SAS Campus Drive [email protected] (919) 531-5637 Cary, NC 27513 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
