We purchased less DASD > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> On > Behalf Of Gerhard adam > Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 10:06 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Here we go again; > > > > > > The notion of “savings” was marketing nonsense. The DASD was paid > for regardless of whether it held a production database or someone’s golf > handicap. > It cost the same whether it was empty or full. The notion of “saving” was > nonsense and even under the best of circumstances could only be deferred > expenses > > > > Get Outlook for iOS > > > > > > > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 10:01 AM -0700, "David Spiegel" > <dspiegel...@hotmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > It was also the physical size of the dataset. > > On 2020-04-22 12:55, Gibney, Dave wrote: > > In the 80's a byte of DASD savings could be thousands of dollars. > > > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Phil Smith III > >> Sent: Wednesday, April 22, 2020 9:12 AM > >> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU > >> Subject: Re: Here we go again; > >> > >> As others have suggested, many companies do still have SSNs stored as > >> packed decimal. So sure, a namespace expansion is possible, but it's > >> a bigger change than one might think, however it's done. I've even > >> seen at least one company who stored them as binary! I sure hope > >> someone got a big bonus for saving that byte... > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> Peter Farley wrote: > >> > >>> There are also many non-human entities like corporations that use > >>> the > >> same SSN value space. > >> > >> > >> > >>> There are a LOT of those . . . and they spring up and fade away at a > >>> rate far > >> higher than human births and deaths. > >> > >> > >> > >> They use the same namespace--that is, if your SSN is 123-45-6789, an > >> estate or business could also have that number. Since they're uses > >> for different things, it's more that they happened (!) to choose the > >> same format than that they're "the same". (And actually they're > theoretically formatted differently: > >> an EIN is xx-xxxxxxx vs. the SSN xxx-xx-xxxx, not that most folks > >> store them with the hyphens.) > >> > >> > >> > >> ...phsiii > >> > >> > >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- > >> - For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO > >> IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN . > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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