On 6/8/2014 3:15 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I suspect that the advent of PDSE partly impelled conversion to more conventional access methods rather than duplicating in IEBCOPY facilities available in PDSE and Binder.
Not only that, but the channel programs it used - which were once considered "blazingly" fast - became inefficient on modern DASD. The developers were able to speed up IEBCOPY processing and remove the onerous APF requirement with one SMOP. -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/