On Wed, 9 Sep 2009 12:59:34 -0300, Clark Morris wrote: >>> > >>> Sigh. Conway's law strikes again. >> >>Yeah - why IBM didn't make FILEDATA=RECORD have the same format as VB really >>upsets me. This new one basically prefixes a logical record with a fullword >>length in the range of 0..1677215 instead of VB's LLBB (where BB is usually >>x'0000'). <sigh> > >Given the length of some open system records, 16 meg is a big >improvement over 32K(take a look at the size of an average JPEG let >alone TIFF graphics) but I think that it probably is too small for the >future. Calculate the size of a RAW format picture on a 24 megapixel >camera. Data size has grown over the years and we have outgrown the >1960's record and blocksize limitations. > Yeah - why IBM didn't make FILEDATA=RECORD have the same format as VBS really upsets me.
What access method are they thinking of that supports 16 MiB records? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
