On Tue, 29 Oct 2019 11:58:00 -0400, Steve Smith wrote:
>OK, after I found my old 3390 reference card, and doing the math, I proved
>that DCOLLECT is indeed using 2**10 to mean kilo- (and presumably 2**20 for
>mega-). I found a 3390-3 (I think) with 3,339 cylinders, and multiplied by
>849,960 (bytes/cyl) and got 2838016440, which /1024 = 2771500.4296875.
>DCOLLECT shows 2,771,500. QED.
>
In "Glossary of z/OS terms and abbreviations" (no title page nor part #;
apparently for z/OS 2.3) I see the (somewhat garbled):
megabyte (MB). 220 bytes, 1 048 576 bytes.,048,576 bytes.
??? (sic)
I find no similar entry, correct or incorrect, for "kilo*".
I wonder which convention IBM uses when it specifies the
shipping weight of a z in kilograms? If IBM can flout SI in
some cases, why not in all?
-- gil
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