On Mon, 30 Apr 2007 20:21:55 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>that the DFSMS group has done its job well here; the Binder group >>simply has a deficiency of faith in DFSMS. > >The BINDER is part of DFSMS. The problem isn't a lack of faith in >OPEN, it's that they know something that you don't know. They probably >should allow concatenations that are strictly Unix files, but mixing >Unix with conventional QSAM would require more code than that. Not >rocket science, but still work that has to be justified with customer >requirements and a business case. > The code to handle concatenations mixed of UNIX files and Classic data sets already exists in QSAM; they do not appear as unlike attributes in the formal sense. In fact it requires "more code" to perform separate handling of UNIX and Classic as Binder apparently does.
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