37 MB is huge? Which decade are you living in? My digital watch has
128 MB. My pocket calculator holds larger memory cards.
Here is an alternative point of view:
I, and a few thousand other apps programmers, have been waiting for
well over a year at my site for a 'non-lazy sysprog' (in your terms)
to implement the table (1208) needed to make half of the Enterprise
Cobol functionality available.
This in a world where IBM doesn't ship a machine with less than 32G
or 64G of real storage? What is the smallest machine they have?
Even the little emulation laptops can hold a few gig of real storage
for the computing pleasure of a single developer.
Not installing the entire set of translations is just begging for
ages and ages of wasted time in development. Even if the sysprogs
are very responsive to requests for new conversion it still means a
few days to get each individual translation added as needed. Only to
save a few meg...
Here is a reality cookie for you -- Best Buy stores are selling 80G
hard drives for USD-19.95. That is about 25 3390's -- or about
USD-0.79 per 3390. I was shocked to see it, it reminded me of the
time I spent $1000 for a used 5M drive and felt I had gotten a great
deal. RAM is equally cheap, but programmer time is not.
You might want to weigh the cost of wasted time for apps people not
having those translations available, having to stop development while
they are added, etc -verses- 37M of real storage. I think you will
be surprised to see which costs less.
On Jun 19, 2005, at 7:44 PM, Schiradin,Roland HG-Dir itb-db/dc wrote:
UCS is required for DB2 V8, CTS V3 (using Webservices), ISPF
(Display), Cobol Enterprise (depends on
the functions). Perhaps other products too.
The default image is huge and is page-fixed storage (real!). AFAIR
about 37 MB and for lazy sysprogs only.
It creates a Common Data Space so watch your CADS settings (IPL).
The first activation require an IPL.
We have UCS since 2003 and no problems with our existing
applications. I held a presentation
about UCS last month at the german CICS Guide and next week for a
local MVS group in germany.
Roland
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