Re: Why all the max length constraints?
From: David Cressey <dcressey_at_verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:57:12 GMT
Message-ID: <IP_eg.4084$f_4.86_at_trndny03>
> This is a plea to stop this silly thread. Also to humbly point out to
> those born after the fact that VSAM has as much to do with the various
> RM's as Christianity does (that OCCURS stuff was in Cobol, not VSAM, in
> fact VSAM had no notion of fields, just bytes and offsets).
>
> magoo
Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 16:57:12 GMT
Message-ID: <IP_eg.4084$f_4.86_at_trndny03>
"paul c" <toledobythesea_at_oohay.ac> wrote in message
news:1Kjeg.198922$P01.24620_at_pd7tw3no...
> J M Davitt wrote:
> > dawn wrote:
> >
> >> J M Davitt wrote:
> >>
> >>> dawn wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> ...
>
> This is a plea to stop this silly thread. Also to humbly point out to
> those born after the fact that VSAM has as much to do with the various
> RM's as Christianity does (that OCCURS stuff was in Cobol, not VSAM, in
> fact VSAM had no notion of fields, just bytes and offsets).
>
> magoo
Now that you mention it, max length limits sounds like the sort of thing John Calvin would have approved of, while Jacobus Arminius probably would have claimed that it was an interference on free will. Received on Tue May 30 2006 - 18:57:12 CEST