> On Mar 20, 2017, at 8:54 AM, John Eells <[email protected]> wrote: > > R.S. wrote: > <snip> >> Once upon a time I had to change SMPPTS to PDS because of ...size >> limits. The limit of *single member( for PDSE was not enough to keep my >> big fat PTF (yes, it was WAS). PDS has no such limit - the limit is full >> PDS (64k TRK). >> However nowadays we have PDSE v2 with much bigger limit for member size. > > It's for that reason, among others, that we have PTF size limits, and the > maximum size of a PDSE V1 member was one of the things on the list (now > replaced by the maximum size of a PDS member, because we do not require the > use of PDSEs for SMPPTS data sets). If you got the sysmod from IBM, I would > be very interested in knowing when it was and what product it was for (if you > have that information handy) so I can "educate" the perpetr--um, that is, > packager. > > Other limits, internal ones aside, are imposed by tape, DVD, and > commonly-deployed DASD volume sizes.
John: I vaguely remember it was the JAVA people. But its been so long ago. Ed ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
