On Fri, 11 May 2012 16:16:03 -0400, Robert A. Rosenberg wrote: >At 00:58 -0500 on 05/11/2012, Mike Schwab wrote about Re: ### of GDG Entries: > >>We have Mobius that creates report files with the date and time as >>part of the file name. Huge numbers of 1 track datasets. > >Why not make them members of a PDS? The member name would be XDDDHHMM >where X is the year number [A=2012 and advances through B-Z one >letter per year], DDD is the day number, and HHMM is the time. > PDSE? In order that:
o Compression is unnecessary. o I believe the directory is indexed, improving search performance. Or, z/OS UNIX (USS) files in a USS directory? For the same two advantages, plus: o A comfortably larger namespace, eliminating the need for recondite compaction of the time stamp. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
