On Wed, Aug 8, 2012 at 7:51 PM, Thomas Kern <[email protected]> wrote: > Too bad Tymshare never donated TymVSAM to the VM community, or at least made > it more > generally available. I never used it directly, just as a user of a canned > application that > used it. Simple single user VSAM in standard CMS files. > > /Tom Kern > > On 8/8/2012 14:56, David Boyes wrote: >>> I'm all for that since VSAM for z/VM has been removed from marketing. >> >> We've looked at doing that (building an interface shim from the CMS VSAM API >> to one or more of the Linux DBMS servers) as well as a potential similar >> shim for the DB2/VM (SQL/DS VM) interfaces. It's not impossible, but it's >> not trivial either. At least for a while, CA had a product that did >> something like this, but I think it's no longer available. >> >> If this is something you'd want, contact me off-list. >>
Hello! Tom are you thinking of the firm as described here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tymshare ? Then I'm not surprised regarding the code you've described there. As for TymVSAM, I found an entry in Google for a discussion back in 2006 regarding what happened to it, And one even earlier from 2005. I seem to remember the discussion that basically went along the lines of it's ah, no longer available. Strangely enough those are the only relevant entries. Google goofs after that. To my mind it sounds like a heck of a good application. ----- Gregg C Levine [email protected] "This signature fought the Time Wars, time and again." ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For more information on Linux on System z, visit http://wiki.linuxvm.org/
