>I am following up on a hunch on the following: >Default Device Geometry : > Bytes/track . . . . . : 47476 > Tracks/cylinder . . . : 15
>This is displayed in the CDS BASE DISPLAY (ISMF 8.1) >This would indicate that the allocations is done on 3380 calculations. Yes. This is an artifact left over from the early days of 3390's and SMS. I have never been a proponent of it, but a lot of shops did it. So, you either have a political battle, or you just request 30 for every 25 cylinders you want. - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

