> I have tried to do a search thru the logs but I am unable to get a > result, I got a question from our Capman guy, is/are there > software/plans to let Linux access VSAM files , perhaps via NFS or > natively, as our current zOS systems all in a Sysplex I would like > to leave that alone for the moment (Linux images would have to be > part of the Sysplex etc etc) more the question would be could we put > the VSAM files on a disk and let an application on Linux read the > data.
Gerard: You can access via NFS VSAM KSDS, ESDS and RRDS files (all in sequential mode only of course). Note that you are responsible for any data transformation (EBCDIC to ASCII, packed decimal to integer, etc.) Regards, Jim
