On 14 Dec 2007 09:50:15 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main you wrote: >-------------------------<snip>-------------------- >Why the UNPRINTABLE should services for what should be a basic data set >type NOT be in the Nucleus? >-------------------------<unsnip>------------------- >That all depends on how large you want NIP and the nucleus to be. >Personally, I'd rather not see my IPL time extended by services I choose >not to use. And since IBM has chosen NOT to show off the details of PDSE >support, none of us has a good idea of how large that support needs to >be, nor the amount of code necessary to reliably read PDSE members. >(Hint, Hint, IBM!!!) :-)
Given that you will be stuck with PDSE for quite some time, putting the needed code for reading in the Nucleus shouldn't add that much (no more than a couple of hundred megabytes at disastrously worst). The code will be needed. Also if we are ever to go to FBA, it will have to be done. > >Since other mainframe PCM's have walked away from the 64-bit world, OCO >is even more senseless now than it was 20 years ago. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
