When AVGREC/AVGVAL came about in the early SMS era, I thought, given our generally records-based view on things in the z/OS world, it would be 'nice' if logical space allocations could be done effectively requesting numbers of records (as an alternative to having to explicitly request bytes).
Thus potentially allowing dataclasses to specify 'x' thousand/million/billion/etc records, and let 'the system' calculate the required space based on the specified lrecl (even if overidden). I seem to recall i may have attempted to raise a share requirement to that effect, but seemingly didnt go anywhere. On 16 May 2018 at 22:32, Tim Hare <[email protected]> wrote: > AVGREC=M,SPACE=(1,(1,1)) allocates one MB with a 1MB secondary extension > in JCL. > > AVGREC(M) AVBLOCK(1) SPACE(1,1) will do the same thing in TSO. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
