Re: Mapped LDA - ILE common variables

Al Barsa, Jr. wrote:

> At 06:48 PM 1/9/98 -0500, you wrote:
> >on 01/09/98at 04:32 PM,  our friend Dave Mahadevan <mahadevan@fuse.net>
> >said:
> >
> >
> >>Please remove the restriction on *LDA being only 1024 bytes.  Please make
> >>it 1MB. 1024 is too little....:-(
> >>--
> >
> >Even nicer, if possible, would be several *LDAs, all 1024 long.
>
> The System/38 did not have *LDA initially.  S/34 folks conplained, so it
> was added for compatability.

One of the reasons, S/34 people refused to buy oversold S/38.  IBM was forced to
introduce S/36 in 1983 (maybe the LDA did the trick!)

>
>
> If you need more LDA like space, create a convention to create data areas
> in QTEMP.
>

Unfortunately, you cannot pass an existing QTEMP to a job being invoked in 
batch.

> If you insist that they be created before any software comes to use them,
> there are several ways that they can pre-created before actual works
> starts, the most obvious of which is an initial program.
>
> In my opinion, IBM has better things to do than make *LDA larger.

Like whaaat?

--
Thank You.

Regards

Dave Mahadevan.. mailto:mahadevan@fuse.net


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