Well, not everywhere. RRDS/ESDS in my experience are still actively used, especially where database complexity would be a performance drawback instead of an advantage. Not *every* business transaction requires a database.
KISS is still a good design principle. Peter -----Original Message----- From: Howard Brazee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 06, 2005 12:38 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Has "VSAM" become synonymous with KSDS? On 6-Jul-2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark Thomen) wrote: > VSAM is a particularly complex access method, much more so than the others. Is VSAM these days pretty much synonymous with KSDS? At one time, I worked in a shop where I converted all of our Univac 9030 data to IBM, and made everything VSAM, even though most files were relative or flat. But over time, I have been finding VSAM being used very little for non KSDS, and have seen people referring to VSAM as "IBM's ISAM". Of course, in some shops, VSAM is obsolete altogether (except for databases that use VSAM that programmers don't see). _ This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail and delete the message and any attachments from your system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
