ISPF 3.2 uses the FAMS GETATTR service. How it's calculated? Couldn't tell you, it's OCO. :-)
Later, Ray > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terry Sambrooks > Sent: Friday November 18 2005 08:29 > > Hi, > > In a post on this topic Charles Mills wrote: > > "It's around somewhere because ISPF 3.2 displays it. Where? > Secondary quantity is in the DSCB-1 but not the primary (or > am I missing it?)." > > Does the DSCB-1 differentiate between Primary and Secondary > requests? Combined DSCB-1 and DSCB-2 will hold 16 extents > worth of information. Surely there is no need to hold a > specific primary quantity as the request will have been > satisfied in up to 5 extents depending upon whether CONTIG > has been specified or not. The converse of course is that the > secondary request, needs to be held to allow for growth up to > the 16 extents limit of the DSCB-1/2 pair for a volume. > > Does ISPF actually report a definite valued, or does it > calculate a value based on the first n extents? I seem to > recall reading somewhere that some component did this but > Virtual Memory has gotten to that stage where I can neither > remember the component or where I read it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
