Re FBA, they did it for other systems, and TSS/360 used page formatted volumes for everything except compatibility volumes, so from a technical perspective it's a no brainer, although direct use of SCSI DASD might make more sense these days. Politically, it's a thorny issue. I'd love to see them extend VSAM to the level of TSS while they're at it, e.g., VIPAM.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Clark Morris [cfmt...@uniserve.com] Sent: Monday, June 29, 2020 6:21 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Virtual SHARE Ageenda The virtual SHARE in August will cost only 199 USD for members, 399 USD for non-members. There will obviously be no travel expenses if you have access to high enough speed Internet. There are opportunities for Birds Of a Feather sessions. If I sign up, I might try to set up a BOF session on COBOL 2014, some of the very useful features and whether they are 20 - 40 years too late because organizations have already implemented work-arounds and won't revisit the code? I also am interested in discussing whether making the effort to have z/OS handle FBA devices for FBA data sets (all VSAM, PDSEs, page data sets, etc.) would be worthwhile and creating FBA equivalents of SYS1.NUCLEUS (combine it with the IPL text?) SPOOL etc.? The schedule which gives the dates and shows the slots for BOF sessions. https://secure-web.cisco.com/1_VVSokqKhjADtATSHjIF0AiTdUg5Coqks2d8rrBHHXEM1FoFSi3SvmzAGRJS1YacF4kNQHbaEQxK_hOdJHR6IpklCG9geNTbPgiKBshbhsW5q0bhOGwAC4xZerhJHcU5DvKNF6wBFpV1PiKX0qesFvtzYDcKh9X7Fm-oibWsVtsVhUqt0tTEriuViat58X_qolfV5PCpO7t23kv6Ny_wadktYh8G30qHCUq61Rcv46WEcvTAhT98R35Lvagq4_jiRl10yG96zPqc58jWk8WmdMccuCqUX7vtrqTTUZqxcy8J85GbZClukrzgHLhw8Kc2-addUDxVF7DzxcDrCMitC0LNwrQumsyC_3DUT4yzxP9P-Q5SwFaePhzpyo_MoAVSFpKh7RMyNplSn_YiuhoL1Pfs3MvKUgxc0P9lPhAc6DAyY6ulfAVsJz2VH6V61Ucn/https%3A%2F%2Fevent.share.org%2Fschedule The actual session agenda which even adjusts the times to your time zone (mine is Atlantic Daylight Time). If I was still a working systems programmer, I would definitely sign up. https://secure-web.cisco.com/1-z8rl6UqNmiXQ8TXyCJiMeNJNWLMA9IFUOODWqSx8hHtwsD0JjRDsxzmrYZWNiN92Hjy4osW5EcIq8-ejuaWpg6gC3kmSpomhjswDUFB4K2ueVuxYDbcJF01hFiJ64ARC6nmgA8jJmsceKEL61f05Gp3obQ7D7OfEg1gbm5LKb6EAU7L_AOMYIAcFC02HLhmgps3ALSeJDUbySuYjVcbgM-NtUqAPmxQGPIXm72vENxrB_x5W9dYej7capQOMdjtWussUSn-5CnRQPeX_s5WY5IJobdwe8WOL8OS0_rBSpxyIfsa7loKUWmzVix9mnGB1wdSIMpZEwT0a5AeXy_cFrtXLjHi3Cx1vJEPZptVMzF21Vzdo5j9t1CTEl2PHA9Fb_y6BYMuU86nFsnZl2QVu4-VdS8Kcvqm2xqn4WUnppKfAb3c2Mq_DT88t36KuQ90FzeE3xhea6DTvdL8jdF4_Q/https%3A%2F%2Fvirtual.share.org%2Fagenda#/?limit=20&scroll=item,oLShgQgAGAsAB9xbo,oLShgQgAGAsAB9xbo,405,120&skip=120&sortByFields[0]=startsAt&sortByOrders[0]=1 Clark Morris ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
