"Paul Gilmartin" <paulgboul...@aim.com> wrote in message news:<2205241542597622.wa.paulgboulderaim....@bama.ua.edu>... > On Mon, 13 Feb 2012 16:23:14 +0100, R.S. wrote: > > > >The only application I know that manages extent size - that means using > >some algorithm for extent increase - is MQ Series aka Wbesphere MQ > >(since version 6 AFAIR). > >It would be nice to have such facility in DATACLASS. > > > Nice indeed. And someone else suggested DB2 as another good > performer. > > And now I may add to my list another example or two of IBM's having > a good idea but implementing it in the wrong layer. This should have > been done not in MQ and/or DB2, but in allocation where all applications > could take advantage of it. All this could have been done without > changing the specification of the VTOC and DSCB nor making incompatible > changes to them. > > Conway's Law. > > -- gil
There is no 'IBM', there is the z/OS lab, the MQ lab and the DB2 lab. If the DB2 lab needs something or has a good idea and the z/OS lab is not willing to implement it, the DB2 lab implements it itself (assuming they at least talk to each other). Kees. ******************************************************** For information, services and offers, please visit our web site: http://www.klm.com. This e-mail and any attachment may contain confidential and privileged material intended for the addressee only. If you are not the addressee, you are notified that no part of the e-mail or any attachment may be disclosed, copied or distributed, and that any other action related to this e-mail or attachment is strictly prohibited, and may be unlawful. If you have received this e-mail by error, please notify the sender immediately by return e-mail, and delete this message. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij NV (KLM), its subsidiaries and/or its employees shall not be liable for the incorrect or incomplete transmission of this e-mail or any attachments, nor responsible for any delay in receipt. Koninklijke Luchtvaart Maatschappij N.V. (also known as KLM Royal Dutch Airlines) is registered in Amstelveen, The Netherlands, with registered number 33014286 ******************************************************** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
