In a recent note, Russell Witt said: > Date: Wed, 29 Mar 2006 18:57:47 -0600 > > As others have stated, the file-limit was never 255. It used to be 9999 (as > Bruce indicated) and still is if you use JCL. However, if you do OPEN TYPE=J > Sigh! Conway's law at it's most pernicious? Don't these departments within IBM communicate with each other?
In a recent note John Eells said: > > z/OS R7: > > Extend Tape Table of Contents (TTOC) records to raise the > DFSMShsm limit on the number of data sets per tape to support > more than 330,000 data sets per volume. This can provide better > Kind of wonder why that limit. Is that the basic capacity of the tape, rather than the size of a field in a control block? And JCL will catch up when? (And what about DYNALLOC?) Sounds like material for a Requirement. -- 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
