On 6/8/2014 3:15 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
I suspect that the advent of PDSE partly impelled conversion to more
conventional access methods rather than duplicating in IEBCOPY
facilities available in PDSE and Binder.
Not only that, but the channel programs it used - which were once
considered "b
On 8 June 2014 18:15, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
> Another contributor to this thread told me long ago that IEBCOPY did
> not (then) rely on customary access methods. Rather, with the goal of
> best performance it used specialized channel programs and facilities
> such as EXCP V=R and I/O appendages.
On 2014-06-07, at 14:46, John Gilmore wrote:
>
> I certainly concede the possibility of front-ending BSAM or QSAM.
> Nevertheless, the data-management facility for multiple-member
> operations is BPAM; and in most circumstances it is the one that
> should be used. With my back to the wall I could
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