On 25 May 2009 18:23:38 -0700, [email protected] (John McKown) wrote: >I agree, except for truly "direct access" data sets. What I have fought >with here is the mindset of "I must allocate in CYLINDERS in order to be >efficient." I want them to allocate in RECORDS (or millions of records). >But, "oh, no! that is not good because I understand what a cylinder is, >but I don't know how much space 1 million records requires." Then when I >ask them how many records they'll get in that CYLinder allocation, I get >the deer in the headlights look.
And of course, people cut and paste their SORTWK* files often without thinking. After all, they are temporary anyway, make them all very, very large and we won't be called in. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
