On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 8:33 AM, John McKown <[email protected]> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2018 at 7:57 AM, Kurt Quackenbush <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 5/15/2018 2:58 AM, Mike Fulton wrote: >> >>> Hi >>> >>> I know in ISPF under 3.2, if I am allocating a dataset and it is >>> SMS-managed, I can specify the space in bytes (e.g. megabytes) >>> instead of tracks or cylinders or blocks. Is there a similar way to >>> do this from the TSO ALLOC command? Looking at the manual, I can't >>> see it, but I would have thought if it could be done in ISPF, it >>> could be done in TSO... >>> >> >> It sure would be simpler if you could just specify the number of bytes, >> but that's not how it works. Instead you specify the length of an average >> record (AVBLOCK) in bytes and the multiplier (AVREC). >> https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.1.0/ >> com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ikjc500/alloccmd.htm > > > S > o you simply set AVBLOCK to 1 and AVREC to number of bytes?
It would include a lot of inter record gap space. Even AVGREC=80 and using blocksize 8000 would add a lot of inter record gap space. -- Mike A Schwab, Springfield IL USA Where do Forest Rangers go to get away from it all? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
