On Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:16:10 +0200, Vernooij, CP - SPLXM wrote: >> >> I've increasingly started to specify my sizes in bytes. > >That's exactly where IBM is trying to get you for the last 25 years... >Apparently one more lost sheep converted. > I'd be more enthusiastic if only they'd simplify it for the user and let me specify the size of an extent in a single number and not screw around with funky scaling factors. I recognize that there is likely a historical basis because of limited sizes of fields in some control blocks. But allocation should perform the calculation and not inflict it on the user. If I want 10 GB, I should be able to code "SIZE=10000000000" and be done with it.
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