On Thu, 9 May 2024 09:25:58 -0400, Phil Smith III wrote: > ... >Thanks for the info, Shmuel et al. And yes, Gil, they're still card images, >right? > Well, sort of. Alas, too many programmers and products remain unaware that the 80-column limit was relaxed long ago, although larger valuew are useful only for instream data sets.
But the obsolete 89-column limit is still enforced by the SUBMIT commands in ISPF, TSO, OMVS, and Rexx. CDC took the opposite approach, making binary cards disk block images, somewhat analogous to: RECFM=VBS,BLKSZE=80 so that disk records readily spanned cards. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN