The system is OS/390 2.9, we've never used PDSE and we don't change what we don't have to.
Thanks, Jim Weidt Senior Systems Engineer Jostens Inc. Office: 952-838-7555 Cell: 612-419-3738 [EMAIL PROTECTED] CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE: The information contained in this e-mail communication and any attached documentation may be privileged, confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure and is intended only for the use of the designated recipient(s). It is not intended for transmission to, or receipt by, any unauthorized person. The use, distribution, transmittal or retransmittal by an unintended recipient of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient of this e-mail, please delete it from your system without copying it and notify the above sender. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden Sent: Thursday, May 17, 2007 2:35 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Date & Time in JCL On Thu, 17 May 2007 14:06:55 -0500, Weidt, James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >2. The pds where the DATETIME member is stored must be compressed >regularly. In our case, once a day is plenty on a 7 cylinder file. > Why not make it a PDSE? Mark -- Mark Zelden Sr. Software and Systems Architect - z/OS Team Lead Zurich North America / Farmers Insurance Group: G-ITO mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] z/OS and OS390 expert at http://searchDataCenter.com/ateExperts/ Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ Mark's MVS Utilities: http://home.flash.net/~mzelden/mvsutil.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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