Tom Conley from the IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 08/12/2014 02:27:20 PM:
> I just posted this to the SHARE requirements discussion database for the > requirement on extended statistics design. As a quick recap, the > current design is flawed because a user has to enter the STATS EXT > command for each member in order to get extended statistics. > > After SHARE in Pittsburgh, the following design was agreed upon. The > STATS EXT command is unnecessary and should be deleted. If the > installation specified extended stats, then ISPF should automatically > determine if extended stats are needed and create them when necessary. > If the installation said no extended stats, then that's that. The user > SHOULD NOT have control over extended statistics. The highlighting on a > member with extended statistics will remain. This design addresses all > known concerns; forcing the user to specify STATS EXT to get extended > statistics, wasting directory space on members that don't need extended > stats, putting the installation in control of extended stats (not > allowing the user to turn them off if the installation turned them on). > If you have any issues with this design, please let us know. > > Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns about this design. In addition to highlighting the member name in the selection list for extended stats members, why not use scaling factors (a la SDSF) for display of large numeric values in the Size and Init fields? And add the "Info" line command for the Edit/Browse selection lists so the exact counts can be displayed. Regards, John K ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
