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BTW: 2000+ aliases is a lot.
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Not really; I once worked in a shop, as a consultant, that had
55,000+ aliases in the MCAT. They pointed to about 30 different UCATS
and were fairly evenly balanced in numbers among the UCATs.
Just curious: how many (estimated) datasets did they have ?
A big number of HLQ's (or more wide: aliases) can be caused by (poor)
naming convention.
BTW: I meant that 2000+ aliases *PER SINGLE USER-CAT* is a lot. This
is not the same as total number of aliases (although I could live with
such limitation if I had to).
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My estimate would be a very wild guess; somewhere around 6,000,000. They
were a time-sharing service bureau. The vast majority of aliases were
for TSO users. The computer room had 18 strings of 32 devices each of
3390-3 SLEDs. Operating system stuff was kept on 3 dedicated strings of
3380-J. Systems were "state of the art" for the time: 3084-KX's with
mostly ESCON channels. When you asked about "Disaster Recovery
Provisions", you got that "Deer in the headlights" stare and dead silence.
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