On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 03:01:12 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
>Vernooij, CP (ITOPT1) - KLM wrote:
>
>>I was actually referring to Columbus, sailing to the west in order to find a
>>shorter way to the Indies, in spite of the 'rule' that he would reach the end
>>of earth and fall off.
>
That "rule" was a fiction invented by Washington Irving according to a
Scientific
American article circa October, 1992. It was known for millennia that the earth
is spherical and there were respectable estimates of its size.
>Of course I later read some of those Terry Pratchet parodies, something about
>a world sitting on giant elephants, all supported by a turtle.
>
Traditional Hindu mythology. What are the Dutch mythologies?
https://xkcd.com/1498/
On Wed, 13 Apr 2016 01:05:00 -0500, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote:
>
>I was "raised and trained" to have all my SMF datasets to be of one LRECL,
>usually 32760 or 32767 simply to avoid such nice abends later. Why can you
>have different LRECLs for the SMF data as input [1]? Is there a reason (beside
>device geometry) why you need different LRECLs for your SMF records?
>
32767? But 32768 is a useful argument to BPXWDYN. Nowadays in a concatenation
the greatest LRECL dominates.
-- gil
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