Re: Sort Join keys

2015-08-09 Thread Massimo Biancucci
In my understanding you do not need to sort the file before unless you specify SORTED (that's ask the JOIN operation to not sort the file) while NOSEQCK ask to not verify the records are really sorted (this can lead to errors). Regards. Massimo 2015-08-07 23:16 GMT+02:00 Ron Thomas

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

2015-08-09 Thread Andrew Rowley
Thanks John. It's very useful to hear from the experts. A couple of other comments about garbage collection based on my experiences: - gencon is the current default. Don't automatically change to optthruput without measuring just because it sounds right for a batch job. It depends on the

Formal definituion of Speed Matching Buffer

2015-08-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
I'm editing the wikipedia article on Count Key Data, and I've run into an editorial dispute. I claim that what is now ECKD was part of the SMB, and the other editor claims that you could run 3380 on a slow channel without using, e.g., Define Extent. Does anybody have a document outlining what IBM

Re: Formal definituion of Speed Matching Buffer

2015-08-09 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
shmuel+ibm-m...@patriot.net (Shmuel Metz , Seymour J.) writes: I'm editing the wikipedia article on Count Key Data, and I've run into an editorial dispute. I claim that what is now ECKD was part of the SMB, and the other editor claims that you could run 3380 on a slow channel without using,

Re: Formal definituion of Speed Matching Buffer

2015-08-09 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Sun, 9 Aug 2015 10:43:42 -0700, Anne Lynn Wheeler wrote: Calypso (speed-matching) feature for 3880 controller allowing 3380s to be attached to slower channels. I have old email about significant software hardware debugging getting it to work.

Re: Formal definituion of Speed Matching Buffer

2015-08-09 Thread Anne Lynn Wheeler
000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu (Paul Gilmartin) writes: Circa 1980 my then employer marketed a CCD SSD product which suffered timing incompatibilities, not because of transfer rate, but because of inter-block latencies. It appeared that some VM paging code paths depended on

Re: Limit number of frames of real storage per job

2015-08-09 Thread Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.)
In 2e88a8852862714ebb4be675da0ec68329463...@505mbx2.corp.vnw.com, on 08/08/2015 at 12:16 AM, Glen Hermannsfeldt (Contractor) c-gl...@livingcomputermuseum.org said: One that I have always wondered about, PL/I (F) at the end of a compile run, tells how much memory it used out of the total