Bob, Thanks; I should have thought of looking at the LISTCAT output.
Kirk Wolf Dovetailed Technologies http://dovetail.com On Fri, Apr 13, 2012 at 6:59 PM, Bob Rutledge <[email protected]>wrote: > Kirk Wolf wrote: > >> I'm trying to understand how to use the catalog fields: >> >> COMUDSIZ >> UDATASIZ >> COMPIND >> VVRNFLGS >> >> ... in order to get an estimate of the uncompressed size of a compressed, >> extended-format DSORG=PS dataset. >> >> The documentation in "Managing Catalogs" is a little thin. >> >> - is UDATASIZ the uncompressed size? >> - which flags should I use to determine that the value in UDATASIZ is >> valid >> - VVRNFLGS? not bit x'80'? >> - COMPIND bit x'40'? >> >> Pointers to additional documentation or usage information would be >> appreciated. >> > > I'm thinking what's required here is some creative correlation between > "Managing Catalogs" and the "Interpreting LISTCAT Output Listings" appendix > in the "Access Method Services for Catalogs" book. How about > "COMP-USER-DATA-SIZE" and "USER-DATA-SIZE"? I'll leave the flags for you. > > Bob > > ------------------------------**------------------------------**---------- > 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
