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]
> 
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