> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant
> Sent: Friday, October 01, 2010 8:56 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Sample code to read a PDS member using BPAM
>
> On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 17:37:48 -0400, Steve Smith wrote:
> >>
> >I don't think all that dynamic allocation would be simpler than using
> >BPAM.
>
> It would if you use BPXWDYN.
>
> --
> Tom Marchant

BPAM would be far more efficient in CPU and I/O. So it is ease of coding vs. 
cost of running analysis. If this is run 100s of times a day, then I'd go with 
BPAM. If it is run once a month, who cares? But it seems silly, to me, to 
design HLASM code in a CPU inefficient way. If CPU doesn't matter, use REXX. Or 
a UNIX shell script.

--
John McKown
Systems Engineer IV
IT

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