The last time I used ISAM was 1981 when I was in college and the system was?a 360/67 running MVT 22.8F. ISAM fell out of favor as MVS matured in the late 70¡¯s. ISAM was functionally stabilized at that time and every one went to VSAM. Don¡¯t think there are too many people who can help you if you have an issue.
On Saturday, December 26, 2020, 12:53 PM, Patrik Schindler <poc@...> wrote:
Hello Joe,
Am 26.12.2020 um 17:32 schrieb Joe Monk <
joemonk64@...>:
> Yeah ... DONT use ISAM. You will regret it if you do so.
May I ask you to elaborate in more detail?
> USE VSAM KSDS instead. Easier and less complicated. If you need some pointers let me know.
Allow me to explain a few more details. I want to use TK4-, so the only COBOL compiler legally available is the MVT one. I honor Jay Moseley's work to enable using VSAM through API calls from that old compiler, but I don¡¯t wanna take this extra step in learning.
Thus I thought, aside from purely sequenced datasets (DSORG=PS), using IS could be beneficial to randomly pick records from a DS. If DSORG=IS is ISAM, actually.
Later, when I feel confident enough, my goal is to indeed use VSAM, through the API provided with KICKS.
:wq! PoC
