Parin, Central Coast Software has a freeware product called DASDCALC which you may find very useful. Here's the link. http://www.centralcoastsoftware.com/
Terry Traylor charlesSCHWAB TIS Mainframe Storage Management Remedy Queue: tis-hs-mstg (602) 977-5154 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Parin Gangar Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 2:08 AM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: How to calculate size of a PS dataset Hi, I need to calculate the size of a dataset in Megabytes / Gigabytes. I cannot download the file and check the same as I know the file size would be over 50 GB and I don't want to fill up my hard disk. The dataset has following details - Device type . . . . :,3390 Record format . . . :,FB Record length . . . :,1526 Block size . . . . :,7630 1st extent tracks . :,15000 Secondary tracks . :,1500 Current Allocation, ,Allocated tracks . :,297,141 ,Allocated extents . :,190 , , , , Current Utilization, ,Used tracks . . . . :,297,141 ,Used extents . . . :,190 I tried searching this on Google, but didn't get anything. I know that there is some formula for this. Any help will be much appreciated. Thanks, Parin ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
