Radoslaw,
I have to agree. It is hard to believe that such a talented group of people can construct a Rube Goldberg so quickly. The OP asked how to calculate the size of the file in MB or GB. Gadi responded with the exact answer: "A track on a 3390 type disk has 56,664 bytes. If you multiply the number of tracks (297,141) by that you get 16,837,197,624 or about 16GB." What other answer could there possibly be? He did not ask how many MB would it use on Windows or *NIX. He did not ask how big is the file after removing block gaps. If you allocate the file using MB notation it will be converted to tracks based on 56664 bytes. Ipso facto tracks times 56664 gives you the size in MB on an MVS system. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of R.S. > Sent: Tuesday, December 23, 2008 9:04 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] How to calculate size of a PS dataset (no, no > yet again) > > (wild guess only) > I believe that FIRST RESPONSE gave Parin (question's author) > satisfactory answer. > We started to invent more sophisticated and sometimes bizarre methods > to > answer the question already answered. > (disclaimer: it is not rant! just observation) > I sometimes observe such behavior the list. What's funny, in many cases > author is no longer interested in and sometimes he stopped to > understand > the thing because of topic deviation. > > In this case we all know that rough answer is easy to obtain using ISPF > and simple calculation. More exact answer requires more data and is > harder to obtain, however since we didn't get more data there is little > reason to search for the answer. > > My $0.02 > Merry Christmas > -- > Radoslaw Skorupka > Lodz, Poland ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
