> -----Ursprungligt meddelande----- > Från: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] För Paul > Gilmartin > Skickat: den 13 februari 2012 15:48 > Till: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Ämne: Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) > > On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 12:27:53 +0100, Thomas Berg wrote: > > >I can't understand why we STILL need to specify SPACE= (etc) for an > allocation of a dataset. > >You normally don't do that in other OS (platforms), You always (both > principally and in practice) want to allocate as much as is needed during > execution > > > Can you use UNIX files (zFS) for your purposes and avoid the archaism? >
Not practically. But that would be a circumvention, not a solution as I see it. Regards, Thomas Berg _________________________________________ Thomas Berg Specialist A M SWEDBANK ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
