I wish they fix the ISMF panels to be whole screen length on a 60 line screen first...
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Joel C. Ewing > Sent: Friday, January 24, 2014 7:36 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] ISMF QUESTIONS - VIEWING STORAGE GROUP > STATS > > Arghhh!! > > There is no excuse among professionals, which ought to include IBM coders, > for introducing new abuses of the "M" mega prefix for anything other than > 10^6 when the international binary prefix standards and Mi binary prefix are > now over 15 years old!! Shame! > > The SMS designers' unnatural choice to marry the tracking of DASD storage > and record-based DASD allocation, neither of which is constrained by binary > increments, with binary 2^10 and 2^20 multipliers was unfortunate. They > should at least make the cosmetic change of correctly reporting such values > with the proper "Ki" and "Mi" prefixes. > Joel C. Ewing > > On 01/23/2014 02:52 PM, Neil Duffee wrote: > > [insert Digest caveat] > > > > Well, will you look at that! *grin* I seem to recall that the panels were, at > one time/version, in KB but I notice my current v1.12 help does, indeed, > indicate MB. In fact, it also indicates they're not using the 1E6 factor but, > rather, "MB is 1,048,576 bytes." At any rate, I suspect Willie is more trusting, > now, of his ISMF panels. > > > > --------> signature = 6 lines follows <-------- > > Neil Duffee, Joe Sysprog, uOttawa, Ottawa, Ont, Canada > > telephone:1 613 562 5800 x4585 fax:1 613 562 5161 > > mailto:NDuffee of uOttawa.ca http:/ /aix1.uOttawa.ca/ ~nduffee > > "How *do* you plan for something like that?" Guardian Bob, Reboot > > "For every action, there is an equal and opposite criticism." > > "Systems Programming: Guilty, until proven innocent" John Norgauer > > 2004 > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: January 21, 2014 02:32 > > Subject: Re: ISMF QUESTIONS - VIEWING STORAGE GROUP STATS > > > > I responsed. > > It's Mbytes, as your calculation proves mathematically: x kB/1000 = y MB. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM- > [email protected]] > > On Behalf Of Neil Duffee > > Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 22:16 > > > > Caveat: I get the daily digest so there is a lag between responses... > > > > Willie: I didn't see any response so... Panel values are in Kb. (F1 Help) > 18061 / 24360 = 0.74... so correct. 30,051 cyl * (15 trks * 55k bytes / 1,000) = > 24792 Kb so (approx.) correct. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: willie bunter [mailto:[email protected]] > > Sent: January 17, 2014 09:44 > > Subject: Re: ISMF QUESTIONS - VIEWING STORAGE GROUP STATS > > > > [snip] Last question. Are the stats posted by ISMF reliable? It is because > this particular storage group has TOTAL SPACE 24360 FREE SPACE 18061 AND > %FREE SPACE 74. That doesn't sound right This pool has 3 mod 9 each has > 10017 cylinders for a total of 30051 cylinders. > > [snip] > > > > > -- > Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected] > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
