On Sat, 7 Sep 2013 21:52:07 -0400, John Gilmore wrote: >Qua sysprog, I am sure thjat you are aware that PDSEs are problematic >early in an IPL process; but none of these problems obtains for COBOL >APs.
Very late to this, so sorry if my concerns have been answered earlier. What about shops with a ring of monoplexes ?. The sysplex scope is each individual monoplex - but the sharing boundary is the larger GRSplex. Latch contention - particularly PDSE latches - are a PITA. >Tom Ross and his colleagues are to be applauded for having taken this >step. It was long, long overdue; and COBOL shops are now being >dragged, kicking and screaming as usual, into the last lustrum of the >20th century Hmmmm - wishful thinking I suspect. There are other issues to be addressed first - I would counter that this may well slow the adoption of 5.1 in more than a few shops. Shane ... ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
