In a message dated 7/8/2005 10:01:38 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Suppose you were to prepare a small program to write fixed-length records that were filled with binary zeros. ... ... you could use IEBDG to generate a bigger data set full of zero-filled records and then use SORT/IEBCOPY to just copy that file to multiple temporary data sets until all secondary space is exhausted. ... ... start with one or two volumes that have a lot of free space, but space that you know was mostly "occupied" by data in the past. After executing the procedure on those one or two volumes, see if you can discern any improvement in the NCL. Obviously, if it gets worse, don't go any farther. --Art Celestini I hope the original poster's management is enlightened and intelligent enough to be able to compare the cost of acquiring the IXFP license to the cost of all their employee's time spent on these manual procedures. An employee's time may be viewed as a sunk cost, but it is still not free. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
