Your original question included the phrase:
> every time I use the phrase 'full pack minidisk'.

Now you're whining that:
" 1 to END minidisk" just doesn't have the same ring to it as 'full 
pack'.   And it's another syllable to mumble..  ;-)

Granted, it does take one whole extra syllable, but :
1 to end minidisk   vs
full pack minidisk
saves a whole BYTE!

Maybe it depends on your elocution skills vs your typing speed and quality 
(both frequent challenges for me).  But "syllable" itself uses a the same 
number of syllables as bytes as "1 to end"!  ;-)
 
Oh look... it's: FRIDAY!!  BYTE me!  ;-)

Mike Walter
Hewitt Associates
The opinions expressed herein are mine alone, not my employer's.



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Ok --  darn it.   "a 1 to END minidisk" just doesn't have the same ring to 
it as 'full pack'.   And it's another syllable to mumble..  ;-)

For Linux guests - my typical recommendation is to use '1 to END 
minidisks' rather than get into dividing things any smaller - unless there 
is a really compelling reason.   And I typically refer to this as a 'full 
pack' provisioning implementation -- so I think I need to stop doing that.

Thanks all -- wanted to make sure I wasn't in the dark on how to refer to 
these beasties.

Scott Rohling

On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 3:16 PM, Alan Altmark <[email protected]> 
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On Friday, 06/18/2010 at 05:07 EDT, Scott Rohling
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Are there different terms for a minidisk that is defined from 1-END as
opposed
> to 0-END ?    I keep having to clarify which I mean every time I use the
phrase
> 'full pack minidisk'.

A fullpack minidisk is define as either 0-END or with DEVNO.

> Is there a more succinct way to refer to them separately so I don't have
to
> parenthetically explain what I mean?   (1-END)

There is no official term, but I don't see what's wrong with "a 1 to END
minidisk".   It requires no more explication than "fullpack".  If there
isn't a VMer on the other end of the conversation, you're going to explain
it no matter what you say!  :-)

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott




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