DSPOBJD and ODOBSZ

[dgallagher@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Dave:

Just as you said, 

<snip "It doesn't seem so long ago that an AS/400 with 10 gig of DASD
would be considered large. Now my home PC has that much and the AS/400 has
single objects larger than that. :-o" snip> 

who could have imagined?

I also find the changes over the years staggering. When I worked on S/38 in
1983, it was a Model 40 with 16 meg (count em, 16!) of memory, and it filled
a
room!

Debbie

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Date: Thu, 9 Sep 1999 15:48:09 +0200 
From: "Kahn, David [JNJFR]" <DKahn1@JNJFR.JNJ.com>
Subject: RE: DSPOBJD and ODOBSZ - was DASD-DISKTASKS

Debbie,

Yes, thanks for pointing that out. I honestly had never considered the size
limitation. It doesn't seem so long ago that an AS/400 with 10 gig of DASD
would be considered large. Now my home PC has that much and the AS/400 has
single objects larger than that. :-o

I do wonder why IBM decided on a packed field of length 10. 11 digits would
take the same 6 bytes in the buffer but allow for objects up to 100 gig. 

Dave Kahn
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