CMS VSAM is no longer marketed or unsupported. Those that are using it are doing so at their on risk. Initially it was setup to access VSE VSAM. Some day this will not work because VSE vsam will change. Having said that....
I needed to rebuild my segment since backing up/loading using SPXTAPE from 5.2 to 5.4 did not work. Q NSS showed it there but CMS could not find it. IT appears that z/VSE 4.2 vsam, for how we use it, is still accessible. Maybe it will break in the next release for VSE. Hans -----Original Message----- From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:ib...@listserv.uark.edu] On Behalf Of David L. Craig Sent: May 20, 2009 11:57 AM To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: z/VM 5.4 VSAM question - PJBR On Wed, May 20, 2009 at 10:00:30AM -0400, David Boyes wrote: > On 5/20/09 4:29 AM, "jose raul baron" <jba...@calculo-sa.es> wrote: > > > - Does VSAM still exist in z/VM 5.4 ? > > You can still use it if you have it, but no new licenses are available and > the product has been pulled from marketing. It still works, and you use the > same installation instructions as you did on 4.4. It also has all the same > limitations. > > > - Is it perhaps included in the z/VM 5.4 code (e.g. as TCPIP) ? > > No, it's under the same terms (and prices) as of old. I must be missing something here. Shops that had it before IBM decided to drop support (because there weren't any problems to resolve) will continue to get it as they upgrade VM, but new shops cannot get it for love nor money? Please, someone, explain the rationale behind this. What are new shops supposed to use instead and are existing shops expected to migrate to that at some point? -- May the LORD God bless you exceedingly abundantly! Dave Craig - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - "'So the universe is not quite as you thought it was. You'd better rearrange your beliefs, then. Because you certainly can't rearrange the universe.'" --from _Nightfall_ by Asimov/Silverberg
