Some other things I have observed.  Sequentially searching large arrays
for each input record, when the input data set contained 100,000's of 
records.  Use of DISPLAY DECIMAL or COMP-3 subscripts instead of INDEX's
or at the very least using a COMP subscript.  

Switching to SEARCH ALL and INDEX's can save large amounts of wall clock
time and CPU time.

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Adam,
Believe me or not, but I (my folks) saved a lot of space by changing BLKSIZE to 
correct one, means SDB. It was not only JCL, but also COBOL.
What is "a lot of space"? It was enough free space on our huge 500GB DASD box 
to NOT PURCHASE ANOTHER BOX. Multiply it x2, because we used PPRC.
We also saved a lot of space by elimination of redundant jobs and datasets. 
However the main goal was to make batch time shorter.
Few years later we saved a lot of space by using extended format PS and 
compression - for selected datasets.
Few years ago we saved a lot of space by using zEDC almost everywhere.

Optimization is still valid, even today. It was extremely valid 30 or years ago 
due to DASD capacity and prices.
We did it, we do it, we will do it.

--
Radoslaw Skorupka
Lodz, Poland





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