On Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:15:20 +0000, Ted MacNEIL wrote: >From the 1.11 announcement: > >In Software Announcement 204-180, dated August 10, 2004, IBM >announced its intent to withdraw support for VSAM IMBED, REPLICATE, >and KEYRANGE attributes in a future release. Based on customer >feedback, IBM no longer plans to remove this support from z/OS in >the foreseeable future.... > >--- >Interesting. >My last major project was to get these attributes removed. >And, I even updated VC (on the CBT) to re-create a file without them. > >I also changed it to create disk control cards, rather than just echo the attributes. > >Another wasted effort?
No. It is still advisable to eliminate the use of these attributes. They cause inefficient use of DASD and lead to inefficient use of CPU. It sounds like there were others where were not as diligent as you. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
