I am having a hard time seeing this type of rationality put forth. It's throwing me for a loop. It's been a "peeve" of mine since I started on mainframes 15+ years ago. I'm used to hearing "it's your application; you figure out how much space it will require, both now and 10 years down the line". Never been by idea of a good use of my time.
Frank >________________________________ > From: Chris Craddock <[email protected]> >To: [email protected] >Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 8:19 AM >Subject: Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) > >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 > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
