On Thu, Apr 18, 2002 at 11:17:45PM +0200, Phil Payne wrote: > > Mainframers - at least MVS types - aren't used to thinking that way. A sile > > as a stream of bytes is completely alien to them. > System types, or application types? We've had RBA since VSAM I - lots of things >like DB2 logs > are RBA-governed.
Systems types that I know of, certainly. They tend to think of files in terms of records, not as a stream of bytes. VSAM ESDSs and the like are definitely in the minority. I can't speak to applications (or, for that matter, IMS and DB2 DBA) folks.
