On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 8:56 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 07:21:11 -0600, McKown, John wrote: > > >Or, as the programmers at our shop would do: > > > > >SPACE=EAT-EVERYTHING-IN-SIGHT-AND-CAUSE-OTHER-JOBS-TO-ABEND-BECAUSE-MY-STUFF-IS-IMPORTANT-AND-YOUR-STUFF-ISNT. > > > >In many other systems, such as Winblows, everybody gets their own > personal "space". And if it is "used up", it doesn't impact others. z/OS > shares DASD space. ... > > > The z/OS cultural norm for HFS and zFS is to give each user a > dedicated filesystem for HOME. This is similar to the behavior > of personal instances of those "other systems". I think it is fair to say that JCL and space management are areas where z/OS truly is archaic. The "other" world manages to get by just fine without having to figure out how much resource to give. There's no reason z/OS couldn't do the same other than slavish adherence to legacy. IMHO it is about time the system itself took care answering its own incessant "how big?", "how many?", "how often?" questions. It's 2012 ferpetesakes. I'm all in favor of making sure that existing applications continue to work. I am far less impressed with continuing to impose 1960s thinking on new ones. -- This email might be from the artist formerly known as CC (or not) You be the judge. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
