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>________________________________ > From: Thomas Berg <thomas.b...@swedbank.se> >To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu >Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 4:27 AM >Subject: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size query) > >I can't understand why we STILL need to specify SPACE= (etc) for an allocation >of a dataset. >You normally don't do that in other OS (platforms), You always (both >principally and in practice) want to allocate as much as is needed during >execution > >If for backward compatibility it can't be done automatically, why not >introduce a new keyword like e g "SPACE=ANY" ? > > > >Regards, >Thomas Berg >_________________________________________ >Thomas Berg Specialist A M SWEDBANK > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
