On Thu, 16 Dec 2010 21:34:26 -0800, Charles Mills wrote:

>So would a person not be better off -- well, would not the MVS system "be
>better off" -- have more options -- by specifying LOC=(31,64)? Why is it not
>the default?

>From the book:

"When LOC is specified, central storage is allocated anywhere until 
the storage is fixed (for example, using the PGSER macro)."

So the real storage that you request (or default) is not honored, and 
doesn't need to be, unless and until you fix the storage in memory.

-- 
Tom Marchant

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