> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of McKown, John > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:48 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: 80-Column Minds (Was: SMP/E question) > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Ted MacNEIL > > Sent: Thursday, May 22, 2008 2:26 PM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: 80-Column Minds (Was: SMP/E question) > > > [snip] > > > > My point is, that today's application programmers still don't > > know the simple things, such as: > > o extents are not a bad thing any more > > Except, at times, for space management issues. We often have very > fragmented volumes and a person cannot get a large primary allocation. > We now preach "use a smaller primary and secondary allocation, and let > dynamic volume count save you from an x37 abend." > FDR fast Compakt is still useful for this problem. And trying to keep application storage pools at least 30% free space.
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