VSE/VSAM has had a lot of enhancements over the last few years. It was
getting to be a maintenance headache to also keep VM/VSAM compatible
with VSE/VSAM. Also, VM/VSAM was part of VSE/VSAM so those customers
using it that also had VSE did not have to pay anything. The ROI was not
good for all the new coding that was going to have to be done.
I think it was a mistake, but I don't run IBM so have no say in the
matter. :-)
Tony Thigpen
Opinions are my own.
-----Original Message -----
From: Tom Huegel
Sent: 07/06/2011 05:13 PM
Other than to say 'it was a buisness decision' has IBM ever actually
said why they killed VM-VSE/VSAM??
What the heck, it still works in VSE ..
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 1:58 PM, David Boyes <dbo...@sinenomine.net
<mailto: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.
