On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 09:49:22 -0500, John P Kalinich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Below is the discussion from ISPF-L that Mark Zelden was referring to. That's it! Thank you John... saved me a search of the archives. BTW, that post was from 7 years ago (Oct. 5 1998). Mark > >Regards, >John Kalinich >Computer Sciences Corp >-- > >Monitor your ECSA usage. It may increase if you have dozens or hundreds of >users with ISPPROF datasets as PDSEs. > >We normally recommend against having ISPF profile datasets being PDSEs >because ISPF uses update-in-place and has padding in profile dataset >members to usually avoid x37 abends while writing to ISPPROF. Also, as >mentioned above, open PDSEs use storage in ECSA, even if they are not >shared. Finally, the performance of PDS is usually better than PDSE for >ISPF profile datasets. > >Dave Levish >Former PDSE Developer > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
