> On Jun 29, 2017, at 12:07 PM, Paul Gilmartin 
> <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 29 Jun 2017 11:44:18 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
>> 
>> Or what are you using to determine that an id is 'inactive'?
>> 
> Are entries in SYS1.BRODCAST timestamped so they could be aged out?
> 
> What was the original design rationale for using a common SYS!.BRODCAST
> rather than individual &PREFIX.BRODCASTs?  Allocation/OPEN/CLOSE
> overhead?  ENQ contention?  Space/VTOC constraint?  Other?
I can’t give a definitive answer but I can make a good guess on the common 
Broadcast. The original developers I am guessing did not want potentially 
1000’s of tiny datasets laying around. They opted for 1 dataset.
Broadcast was in (still in) mstrjcl so there was no need to do multiple 
opens/closes. As for contention it wasn’t all that bad as *I THINK* it was only 
enqued at update time. It was/is a BDAM dataset. 

Ed
> 
> UNIX facilities could be your friend here, even as UNIX batch jobs simply
> append their logs to the user's mbox.
> 
> -- gil
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