> The need for humans to tell the machine how big a disk is strikes me as cosmic humor. That's as funny as ... as ... as having a $1M computer ask you to look at at your $15 Mickey Mouse watch and tell it what time it is when you IPL it. Even more comically humorous to me is that without specially paid for extra hardware, that $1M computer (obviously someone is getting a very good deal on 196's!), that computer's own internal clock is no more accurate than Mickey! Someone should be ashamed!
Mike Walter Aon Corporation (Sent from the wee keyboard of a Blackberry.) ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan Altmark" [alan_altm...@us.ibm.com] Sent: 01/05/2011 06:36 PM EST To: IBMVM@LISTSERV.UARK.EDU Subject: Re: SORTING DIRECTORY GAPS BY USER On Wednesday, 01/05/2011 at 06:18 EST, gclo...@br.ibm.com wrote: > Hi, George. > As Kris said, the program don't know the real end of the dasd. He assumes the > model enough to accommodate the last cylinder defined. Due the same problem, > avoid use "0 END" for fullpacks. Maybe fix the program to do a QUERY DASD DETAIL to find out how big the volume is? Yeah, you have to run it from an authorized id, but that shouldn't be an issue. The need for humans to tell the machine how big a disk is strikes me as cosmic humor. That's as funny as ... as ... as having a $1M computer ask you to look at at your $15 Mickey Mouse watch and tell it what time it is when you IPL it. Alan Altmark z/VM and Linux on System z Consultant IBM System Lab Services and Training ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott The information contained in this e-mail and any accompanying documents may contain information that is confidential or otherwise protected from disclosure. If you are not the intended recipient of this message, or if this message has been addressed to you in error, please immediately alert the sender by reply e-mail and then delete this message, including any attachments. Any dissemination, distribution or other use of the contents of this message by anyone other than the intended recipient is strictly prohibited. All messages sent to and from this e-mail address may be monitored as permitted by applicable law and regulations to ensure compliance with our internal policies and to protect our business. E-mails are not secure and cannot be guaranteed to be error free as they can be intercepted, amended, lost or destroyed, or contain viruses. You are deemed to have accepted these risks if you communicate with us by e-mail.
