David Boyes wrote:
This is what the old Mainframers are familiar with as Fixed
Block Architecture. IBM pushed it a couple of decades ago,
but the Mainframe world was more comfortable with CKD
The z/OS world, maybe -- mostly due to the massive assumptions of CKD in
z/OS. IBM went gung ho for FBA, and then figured out how
OS VS/1, OS VS/2 (MVS and maybe SVS) were current at the time. I've not
run Hercules for a while but as I recall one can define an FBA device to
and use it to read a CD. It might be that that only works for DOS: I
have a couple of 3370s defined (I've just checked my archive), but the
file name suggests they might not be MVS volumes.
--
Cheers
John
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