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Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * [email protected] * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Sunday, May 13, 2012 1:28 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ### of GDG Entries > > In <1336770284.12924.20.camel@localhost>, on 05/11/2012 > at 05:04 PM, David Andrews <[email protected]> said: > > >So expanding the max number of generations much past 255 is > >problematic with the current key design. I guess IBM could walk > >in a new catalog format (by e.g. allowing more than one GDS per > >extension record), but I wouldn't look forward to all the > >coexistence woe that might provoke. > > Hence my "wouldn't be trivial." But it would certainly be easier than, > e.g., the migration from VSAM catalog to ICF catalog. Anybody here > remember how smoothly DF/EF came out. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
