Guys, Me too, never even thought of megabytes until the pc slam dunk artists came along, everyone I knew calculated their file size in tracks or cyls. As someone tod me new world order....lol
Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com On Feb 17, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Steve Comstock <[email protected]> wrote: > On 2/17/2012 12:57 AM, Edward Jaffe wrote: >> On 2/13/2012 9:38 AM, Joel C. Ewing wrote: >>> Requiring application programmers to think in terms of tracks and cylinders >>> and to understand interaction between physical block size and track capacity >>> is indeed archaic, as are artificial restrictions on number of extents or >>> volumes. >> >> TRKs and CYLs? Most of our allocations are in MEGs. Doesn't everyone do that >> these days? >> >> SPACE=(1,(5,1),RLSE),AVGREC=M Allocate in MEGs >> > > I would have thought allocations in records or thousands of records, > or millions of records, e.g.: > > SPACE=(440,(100,5),RLSE),AVGREG=M > > allocate space for 100 million records of 440 bytes long. > > > Folks responsible for an application usually have some rough idea > of the number of records (right?) and they know the size of the > records. Records relate to something concrete (customers, > inventory, employees, etc.) whereas megabytes is more abstract. > > > But, hey, I live in the ivory tower. > > -- > > Kind regards, > > -Steve Comstock > The Trainer's Friend, Inc. > > 303-355-2752 > http://www.trainersfriend.com > > * To get a good Return on your Investment, first make an investment! > + Training your people is an excellent investment > > * Try our tool for calculating your Return On Investment > for training dollars at > http://www.trainersfriend.com/ROI/roi.html > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
