On 8/8/2012 20:04, Gregg Levine wrote: > 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]
Yes, that is the company. They hosted VMShare for us, way back when, even before PC bulletin board systems were answering their phones with 9600 baud modems. /Tom Kern (I think my first entry on VMshare goes back to March 1980) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/
