In a recent note, Charles Mills said: > Date: Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:32:28 -0700 > > Perhaps someone else knows for sure: there are or were some issues with > concatenations (for regular QSAM GET) if the subsequent concatenations > had BLKSIZEs greater than the first. You could try coding > BLKSIZE=<longest BLKSIZE of any library in the concatenation> on the > first DD. > Interestingly enough, IBM fixed that several years ago: BPAM now uses the longest BLKSIZE, rather than the first. (But does CS use BPAM?) Of course, there's always the possibility that someone later wrote to the library, overriding with a BLKSIZE less than the size of some block actually present in the library. But even that should result in an I/O error. (Unless the library is VIO.)
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