Christine--I'm not an MVS type, so I don't really know much about MVS's PDS
or PDSE support. I have heard, tho, that the PACKLIB support in FCOPY from
the VM download page can be, in some ways, thought to be similiar (is that
enough of a disclaimer?) to an MVS PDS. I've used FCOPY and the more
recently added PACKLIB feature ever since it became available in IBM
internally and now from the download page. You can stuff anything you want
into a PACKLIB, including duplicate fileid's. You get anywhere from a 5-10
: 1 compression ratio, at least for normal, unpacked files. You cannot put
programs into a PACKLIB and execute from there. You would have to extract
a module or exec to have something to execute.
To answer your original question, no there has been nothing added to VM in
this regard since you looked at the VM/ESA 1.2 level.
Jim
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Is there support for PDSE in CMS these days...?
I found in the archives back from 1995 that there was no support in CMS for
PDSE's (the "new" PDS format for MVS datasets).
That was on VM 1.2 I believe. I can't find that anything has changed since
then. Has it?
Thanks!
Christine Brogan - TPF/VM Systems Support
Information Technology Services Americas
Phone: 623-505-5366, Cell: 623-512-5883, IBM tieline 273-4647
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Is there support for PDSE in CMS these days...?
I found in the archives back from 1995 that there was no support in CMS
for PDSE's (the "new" PDS format for MVS datasets).
That was on VM 1.2 I believe. I can't find that anything has changed since
then. Has it?
Thanks!
Christine Brogan - TPF/VM Systems Support
Information Technology Services Americas
Phone: 623-505-5366, Cell: 623-512-5883, IBM tieline 273-4647
Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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Jim Bohnsack
Cornell Univ.
(607) 255-1760
