On 12/30/11 08:39, Mark Zelden wrote:
On Thu, 29 Dec 2011 21:28:02 -0600, John McKown<joa...@swbell.net> wrote:
Now I really wonder why the ALLOCATE
verb even exists.
The first (and only) place I saw it used is was in the ServerPac allocate job
(and it
wasn't always that way). I don't know if it was originally developed for
ServerPac
use or not (but I'm sure John Eells knows).
Regards,
Mark
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Actually I'm to blame for the use of IDCAMS ALLOCATE in the Server Pack
allocate job. Prior to the use of IDCAMS I noticed that the allocation
of the thousand or so datasets in JCL was sucking up CPU time since it
ran at a dispatching priority of x'FE'.
I opened up an ETR with IBM Server Pac support and recommended the
IDCAMS ALLOCATE verb instead of PGM=IEFBR14.
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