BSAM is used by DFSORT for Extended Format Sequential access - to name but one quite large use case.
(And to get back to the thread) it copes with Spanned VBS records. I'm sure other products do, too. But I think the OP's curiosity is well founded. Cheers, Martin Martin Packer, zChampion, Principal Systems Investigator, Worldwide Banking Center of Excellence, IBM +44-7802-245-584 email: martin_pac...@uk.ibm.com Twitter / Facebook IDs: MartinPacker Blog: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/blogs/MartinPacker From: Peter Hunkeler <p...@gmx.ch> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Date: 16/01/2015 06:33 Subject: AW: Re: SMF RDW Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> >>I just want to understand ?how?. >Why? I genrally say there is no stupid question, but this one is an exception. There is no use in asking why someone wants to understand how something works. The OP stated that he would like to get a deeper understanding. That should suffice to provide information if available instead tring trying to get justification on the why. No offence intended, Elardus, but you just did answer in a similar way to my query yesterday. I clearly stated that I'm curious to understand how OPEN works. I'm a curious guy. > I'm asking because you can't use RDW directly with standard methods. So you don't consider BSAM a standard way of working with data? I do not say it is used very often in all days programming, but I still consider this a standard method. And you do, well actually you must deal with RDWs and even BDWs yourself. -- Peter Hunkeler ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN Unless stated otherwise above: IBM United Kingdom Limited - Registered in England and Wales with number 741598. Registered office: PO Box 41, North Harbour, Portsmouth, Hampshire PO6 3AU ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
