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in addition, because you feel your src pfs seem rather big: Every line (record) occupies the given maximum length at CRTSRCPF time, no matter if there's just one character or more. Src pfs are not varlen enabled. Thus, they tend to become filled with mostly *BLANKS, depending on which kind of text is saved there.
If you create src pfs with a "better safe than sorry" maximum record length, then this effect becomes worse.
A clear plus for positional RPG! Yeah! :-D
SCNR ;-)
You can work around this effect with not relying on src pfs at all, but place all source files in the IFS in the unix-compatible tree (/ or /QOpenSys). Since this isn't record oriented, this kind of wasted space cannot happen.
(There might be other kinds of space wasting, though. Like a minimum file size: One char, and the smallest file is already allocated a certain size. Additional space is usually allocated in that particular block size. On V4 this was as big as 64kBytes. Duh! IBM was most likely happily selling bigger disks because a simple 500 Bytes HTML page for "eCommerce" was allocated 65536 Bytes. In 7.2, it's 8KBytes.)
:wq! PoC
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