Arghhh!!
There is no excuse among professionals, which ought to include IBM
coders, for introducing new abuses of the "M" mega prefix for anything
other than 10^6 when the international binary prefix standards and Mi
binary prefix are now over 15 years old!! Shame!
The SMS designers' unnatural choice to marry the tracking of DASD
storage and record-based DASD allocation, neither of which is
constrained by binary increments, with binary 2^10 and 2^20 multipliers
was unfortunate. They should at least make the cosmetic change of
correctly reporting such values with the proper "Ki" and "Mi" prefixes.
Joel C. Ewing
On 01/23/2014 02:52 PM, Neil Duffee wrote:
> [insert Digest caveat]
>
> Well, will you look at that! *grin* I seem to recall that the panels were,
> at one time/version, in KB but I notice my current v1.12 help does, indeed,
> indicate MB. In fact, it also indicates they're not using the 1E6 factor
> but, rather, "MB is 1,048,576 bytes." At any rate, I suspect Willie is more
> trusting, now, of his ISMF panels.
>
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>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vernooij, CP (SPLXM) - KLM [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: January 21, 2014 02:32
> Subject: Re: ISMF QUESTIONS - VIEWING STORAGE GROUP STATS
>
> I responsed.
> It's Mbytes, as your calculation proves mathematically: x kB/1000 = y MB.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Neil Duffee
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2014 22:16
>
> Caveat: I get the daily digest so there is a lag between responses...
>
> Willie: I didn't see any response so... Panel values are in Kb. (F1 Help)
> 18061 / 24360 = 0.74... so correct. 30,051 cyl * (15 trks * 55k bytes /
> 1,000) = 24792 Kb so (approx.) correct.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: willie bunter [mailto:[email protected]]
> Sent: January 17, 2014 09:44
> Subject: Re: ISMF QUESTIONS - VIEWING STORAGE GROUP STATS
>
> [snip] Last question. Are the stats posted by ISMF reliable? It is because
> this particular storage group has TOTAL SPACE 24360 FREE SPACE 18061 AND
> %FREE SPACE 74. That doesn't sound right This pool has 3 mod 9 each has
> 10017 cylinders for a total of 30051 cylinders.
> [snip]
>
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Joel C. Ewing, Bentonville, AR [email protected]
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