Ken said:
> over nfs to a staging area on my server, then create something akin
> to generation data groups for the real backups on a different
...
> 1. GDGs - I'm sure wikipedia knows about them, a form of dataset
> organisation on IBM mainframes using VSAM. Arthur Dent would
Wednesday, May 07, 2014 12:08 PM Paul wrote:
>> Apropos of nothing much, thanks for bringing a smile to my face!
>> I remember GDG's, barely. Didn't expect to run into a memory of
>> them these days. When accused of being an "old dinosaur" I often
>> remind someone, "Remember 'Jurrasic Park'? T. rex was a dinosaur."
>> [...]
Not only do I remember GDG's I actually use them as my job involves
airline scheduling on IBM mainframes. The APPS I support feed into
a rather large Cobol/IMS real time environment. The stuff I work with
is right out of Jurassic Park though - Fortran based optimizers on the
mainframe, Unix and GNU/MinGW Linux. Some in the dark ages, some
in the renaissance era...
--
Jim
--
http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html
Unsubscribe: See the above information page
