is the book still available? Name??thx Mace On Fri, Oct 2, 2009 at 7:54 AM, Jim Marshall <jim.marsh...@opm.gov> wrote:
> On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 11:23:41 -0500, Ward, Mike S <mw...@ssfcu.org> > wrote: > > >Is this product you speak of still available? > > > Yes, after some searching around the Mainstar (Rocket Software) site for > VSAM MANAGER, it appears to be a separate product. > > It is also packaged in their CR+ (Catalog Recovery) product because back in > the 1990s I saw that I could improve ICF Catalog (a VSAM file) if I > analyzed > with VSAM Manager. I strongly suggested to Ron that if indeed CR+ was > supposed to be an analysis and fixit product for catalogs, then performance > of > a working catalog was just as important as non-performance of a broken > catalog. He probably heard this from other people besides the Old guy in > WashDC. Eventually the functions of VSAM Manager were folded into the CR+ > product. > > I seem to remember Ron published a book on VSAM which was quite good and > written for the novice. Again the collective wisdom of the book is in the > product although one could take the book, follow the steps and do the > analysis manually. > > Jim > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
