There's one mid-level OS that has supported something similar to GDG's for a long time - (Open)VMS. It has had versioning for a long, long time (filename.ext;version#).
Now if HP would port it to the x86 platform...but I'll admit, that's a lot of work. I'm sure lots of it is written in assembler. Later, Ray -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Schmidt Sent: Tuesday August 02 2005 15:19 (snipped GDG stuff) However, more generalized GDG support might be a very nice thing to add to z/OS (or its successor) since that is a fairly big differentiator between z/OS and *nix systems. I've heard MANY *nix administrators and programmers lament over the lack of GDG-style support on their platforms. (Most of them attempt to reinvent that wheel and most attempts that I've seen missed quite a few cogs and spokes.) There might well be a lot of business value to IBM if z/OS would generalize the GDG support to (a) VSAM and (b) zFS files, and then perhaps carry that support back out to the iSeries and pSeries platforms (after crowing about it on z/OS first). -- Tom Schmidt Madison, WI ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
