In a message dated 7/9/2005 9:21:50 P.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/08/2005 at 12:23 PM, Bill Fairchild <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > A page data set also looks like a >QSAM/BSAM/BDAM/ESDS file, in that all blocks have the same key >length (0) and data length (4K), but certainly the individual blocks >are read/written by radically different techniques. BSAM/QSAM files do not, in general, have blocks of identical size, even for RECFM=FBS. I regret having written my sentence with insufficient parsing, thus allowing it to be interpreted to mean that I believe all QSAM files, e.g., have all blocks the same size, which I certainly do not believe. Bill Fairchild ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
