----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Marchant" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
Sent: Friday, May 11, 2007 7:58 PM
Subject: Re: Top 10 software install gripes
On Fri, 11 May 2007 23:54:34 +0000, Ted MacNEIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
That doesn't explain why you'd want the directory to be allocated in full
tracks, though.
IIRC, I was taught that the entire track was formatted as directory
blocks,
but you could only allocate/access the ones you asked for in JCL.
Regardless of how many you specified, the first member starts on/in the
next track after the directory.
That's not correct. Never was. You can prove it easily enough. Create a
PDS with one track, no secondary. If what you say was true, you'd never
be
able to create a member.
Tom,
I tested this in the old days of SLED DASD, and the directory was a keyed
track and you COULD NOT store a member in the directory track. It always
took 2 tracks minimum for a PDS (of course, this has not been true for about
15 years).
Regards,
Tom Conley
----------------------------------------------------------------------
For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions,
send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO
Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
