On Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:52:50 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote:
>xSAM? I don't know of any language on z/OS* other than HLASM that supports
>BPAM.
>
I believe that SAS/C (ISV) support{s|ed} a construct such as fopen(
"DD:"ddname"("member")", ... );
presumably employing BPAM.
And early in the development of the QSAM/BSAM interface to allocated
HFS files the facility was referred to as xSAM. The name was deprecate
as an overload.
>At this point, if I invest the time to master** a new language, I'd be looking
>at Java, Ruby or Rust rather than Python.
>
>* Assembler E, F, XF, H and H V2 don't count; they're not supported. It
>might, however
> be fun to see if thy will still run.
>
>** I mean a lot more than just Hello world
-- gil
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