In a recent note, Jay Maynard said: > Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2005 16:55:05 -0500 > > > Or, how about keeping text files, for long term, in DASD-resident > > B-trees, and providing an access method for sequential access? > > Uhm...isn't this reinventing PANVALET or LIBRARIAN? > Don't know; haven't used either. But hearsay is that at least one allows concurrent editing of the same member by two different users (integrity with no locking), and each can see the other's updates (almost?) instantly.
But are there QSAM/BPAM interfaces so those repositories can be used directly as SYSIN and SYSLIB, with no need to copy to Classic PDS[E]s? (I hope the compile processes wouldn't see uncommitted updates.) -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
