Ed:

We still have SAS although the excessive $$ is making my manager think about
alternatives.
I think SAS may be finally trying to comply. For example, SAS 9.2 finally
supports DSNTYPE=LARGE.

Don

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Don:

Sorry to say that there are still (to this day) datasets (SAS) comes to
mind.
I (Long ago) opened a problem with them asking that they at the minimum
change it to dsorg=dau (direct access unmovable) but got the stupid ass
reply well it moveable if you use sas. SIGH... I gave up and did a campaign
in the company that if you used sas do not create sas db's. I got a
willingness to comply but we dropped SAS ($$ and other issues) so it really
didn't make a whole lot of difference.

Ed



On Jan 9, 2013, at 5:59 PM, Don Williams wrote:

> I agree. My definition of "minor change" is a change that does not 
> affect the application's logical view of the file as seen through its 
> access methods. Some types of change might be "minor" for one 
> application, whereas the same type of change for a different 
> application would be catastrophic.
> Of course, I need to understand how the application accesses its 
> files, in order to succesfully make these kinds of "minor changes". So 
> I would love it if I could use HSM recall to do that.
>
> I can remember a stone-age application that required its master file 
> to be a specific size on a particular volume at specific location on 
> that volume.
> Hopefully, all applcations like that are long dead and gone.
>
> Nowdays, most (but not all) applications are written to be independent 
> of the CISZ or BLKSIZE, therefore changing the CISZ or BLKSIZE makes 
> no logical difference to the application. For an application that uses 
> standard access methods, even changing the file from non-EA to EA 
> should make no logical difference.
>
> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 5:53 PM
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> Subject: Re: ESDS extent ...
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> W dniu 2013-01-09 22:53, Don Williams pisze:
>> The HSM manuals do not clearly state that the objective of HSM is to 
>> re-create the dataset as it was previously created. For example, with 
>> the right options a HSM recall can convert a SMS-managed data set to 
>> non-SMS-managed and vice versa (with some restrictions, of course). I 
>> agree that some changes like making the LRECL smaller or converting 
>> from/to EBCDIC to/from ASCII would destory data. However, HSM could 
>> be designed to perform useful minor format changes during a recall. I 
>> would love it, if HSM had recall options to change the primary and 
>> secondary allocation quanities, non-EA to EA, change blksize or 
>> cisize,
> etc.
>
> Well, it depends on definition of "minor change". ExtFmt, CISZ, 
> BLKSIZE are NOT minor changes in my understanding because they change 
> format of
> *existing* data. There are aplications CISZ or BLKSIZE dependent, Ext 
> Fmt
> *is* physically different, etc.
> SMS-managed or not does not affect the data itself.
>
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