-----Original Message----- From: Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 10:34:34 To:IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Highly used programs: any better replacements out there? IDCAMS, IEFBR14
In a recent note, Martin Kline said: > Date: Tue, 12 Jul 2005 07:43:18 -0500 > > It's a serious suggestion, but I do not expect IBM to > give it serious consideration. There's no money to make. > IBM will respond to serious customer requirements. But you need to make a business case. You probably need to enlist the support of your colleagues. You haven't succeded in that. It would help if you provided some real statistics: How much resource is your site expending on IEFBR14? It's my suspicion (no hard numbers here, either) that creating, cataloguing, or deleting a single data set is more expensive than the IEFBR14 overhead; that's where the optimization effort should be concentrated. Short of that, heed the suggestion of John Eells (and others) to use IDCAMS instead of IEFBR14. Now, is IDCAMS itself susceptible to optimization? I find that when I go to ISPF 3.4 and type 'D' before a few dozen data set names, my terminal is unavailable for an uncomfortably long time during processing. I wish that could be done in parallel, or, better, in background, so I could use the terminal, or at least the other screen split, for the duration. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html -teD In God we Trust! All others bring data! --Deming ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
