Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ?

2019-08-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List on behalf of Lionel B Dyck Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019 8:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ? Think the TSO logon process where the allocations are in a REXX exec and not in static DD's in the logon proc

Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ?

2019-08-09 Thread Seymour J Metz
of Steve Smith Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019 9:49 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ? By far the best performance is obtained by not allocating the files until they're actually needed. It takes some effort, but it's not difficult to build application starter execs that use

Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ?

2019-08-09 Thread Steve Smith
er than your reputation. Character is what > you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden > > -Original Message- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf > Of > Binyamin Dissen > Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019 7:18 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@LIS

Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ?

2019-08-09 Thread Lionel B Dyck
hink you are." - John Wooden -Original Message- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Binyamin Dissen Sent: Friday, August 9, 2019 7:18 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ? On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 14:19:06 -0500 Lionel B Dyck wrote: :>Which is the most ef

Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ?

2019-08-09 Thread Binyamin Dissen
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 14:19:06 -0500 Lionel B Dyck wrote: :>Which is the most efficient in terms of processor resources? :>TSO ALLOC or BPXWDYN? One wonders about the application where the dataset allocation performance is an issue. -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Di

Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ?

2019-08-08 Thread Charles Mills
, 2019 4:05 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ? + BPXWDYN is easy to debug. You can print out the character string parm easy-peasy and see if it is right or wrong. -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff

Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ?

2019-08-08 Thread Charles Mills
To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ? On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 14:19:06 -0500, Lionel B Dyck wrote: >Which is the most efficient in terms of processor resources? > >TSO ALLOC or BPXWDYN? > It probably depends on where you start from. From the TSO READY prompt, ALLOC

Re: ALLOC or BPXWDYN ?

2019-08-08 Thread Paul Gilmartin
On Thu, 8 Aug 2019 14:19:06 -0500, Lionel B Dyck wrote: >Which is the most efficient in terms of processor resources? > >TSO ALLOC or BPXWDYN? > It probably depends on where you start from. From the TSO READY prompt, ALLOC may be more efficient that "CALL *(BXWDYN) 'arg

ALLOC or BPXWDYN ?

2019-08-08 Thread Lionel B Dyck
Which is the most efficient in terms of processor resources? TSO ALLOC or BPXWDYN? Thx Lionel B. Dyck < Website: <http://www.lbdsoftware.com/> http://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputati