On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 14:54:51 -0400, Bill Fairchild wrote: > >In 1982 I attended a SHARE session in New Orleans in which the IBM presenter >said that he had surveyed a huge number of data sets in an internal IBM >development data center, and had found that the single most commonly used >block size was 80 bytes. Presumably many of these people had been developing >mainframe code since the early 1960s when S/360 began being built. > "How to Lie with Statitics" topic="mode". That might mean that 1% of data sets have BLKSIZE=80 but no particular other value rises to that frequency. 1% is probably still too much; that could waste a disproportionately large fraction of DASD space.
Will COBOL ever outgrow the default of CONTAINS 1? Perhaps by installation PARM option? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
