CICS/VM .. I had almost forgotten about that beast. Back in the day my boss thought he could get rid of VSE and run CICS/VM only... It was quite comical at the time, because the IBM sales staff had not even heard of CICS/VM .. although they were happy to sell it to us... Needless to say, it never made it off the ground.
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:20 PM, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com>wrote: > On Wednesday, 07/06/2011 at 04:59 EDT, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net> > wrote: > > > Don't know if you all saw this. > > > I was hoping that when IBM bought them, they might enhance the VM > > > product. Instead, they killed it. Sigh. > > > > Figures. That VSAM thing is the killer prereq -- everything that started > life > > on MVS requires it as a prereq, and thus is doomed to destruction. > Convenient > > excuse to kill off more CMS applications. > > As I mentioned back in 2009 (what? you don't remember?), CMS still > supports the "Alternate VSAM Emulator" added in 1985. It was specifically > invented to enable Something Else to get control when VSAM macros were > used. SQL/DS exploited it back in the day, if memory serves, but I don't > know if DB2/VM supports it. (Maybe we added it for the short-lived > CICS/VM?) > > See the CMS Application Development Guide to Assembler for details. > > Alan Altmark > > Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant > IBM System Lab Services and Training > ibm.com/systems/services/labservices > office: 607.429.3323 > mobile; 607.321.7556 > alan_altm...@us.ibm.com > IBM Endicott >
