As was suggested before the extension contains the allocation amount 'type'. DS1SCXTF contains the indicators for mega/kilo/bytes etc. Old school (okay, the usual) allocation request types are in DS1SCAL1.
Is this what you are asking? ...chris. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tony Harminc Sent: Wednesday, May 06, 2015 4:09 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Primary allocation of a dataset On 6 May 2015 at 16:54, Walt Farrell <[email protected]> wrote: >>But how does it know what those original units were? > > DS1DSPAC shows you the original _units_ (trk, cyl, average block). As > far as I know (and as others have said) nothing will show you the > original _number_ of those units requested for the primary allocation, which > seems to be the OP's desire. Sure - I get all that. But I don't know how ISPF displays cylinders/tracks/megabytes for various datasets. Is it just always displaying average blocks as megabytes? Maybe it's that simple; it's not something I've investigated - just noticed what seems like inconsistent output. Ah - maybe "megabytes" are only for PDSEs, even if they were allocated by tracks or cylinders. Well, no, I have a PDSE that shows current allocation in cylinders, so it's not that simple. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
