On Tue, 8 Dec 2015 18:10:44 -0600, Ed Gould wrote:
>
>This becomes a key point *IF* PDSE's ever become multi volume.
>Somewhere in the recent past I *think* Ibm announced multi volume
>pdse (I could be wrong but I do remember think about this when it was
>announced).
>
I think an obstacle is not having enough bits in the NOTE/POINT object to
address so many blocks. Look at the bizarre way CCHHR is dissected
to allow more than 54 GB on a DASD volume.
Gordon Bell has famously harangued on the folly of skimping on
address bits.
https://what-if.xkcd.com/imgs/a/63/google_160kb.png
-- gil
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