Re: COBOL 3.2 on z/OS reading variable len files

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:44:00 -0600 Howard Brazee <howard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

:>It's funny - 3 decades ago, environments that I worked at had loads of
:>variable length files. But about 2 decades ago, they were replaced
:>by header-detail records and then by databases.

:>Now, we don't even have VSAM files anymore. (This shop never had any
:>VSAM except KSDS).

You certainly do, if running an MVS derivative. They might not be accessed
with COBOL programs but they are basic to the O/S.

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