If that is not sarcasm than you've hopelessly lost me. Frank
>________________________________ > From: Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Friday, February 17, 2012 3:57 PM >Subject: Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) > >On Fri, 17 Feb 2012 13:46:12 -0800, Frank Swarbrick wrote: > >>How many transactions am I going to post today? How many on Monday. What >>about Tuesday after a three day weekend? What about Tuesday on a 3 day >>weekend 4 years from now? > >>Each "transactions" is 100 bytes. We save the transactions for a year. We >>are a brand new bank that has not yet processed any transactions. How many >>megabytes should I define my transaction file? > >>No, I'm not expecting a real answer to that question. Just trying to point >>out why it's hard, to say the least, to know how to size files of this type. > >Well, that's because you're posing the question in them PFCSK "megabytes". >If you'd just think in cylinders like a good mainframer is supposed to, it >would >be simple. > >--- gil > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >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
