On Thu, 6 Aug 2009 13:58:33 -0400, Stocker, Herman wrote: >Really, I took it out and the job failed. Put it back in and it worked >without incident. And yes I still have it in that job to date. > It's possible that there was a data set in the concatenation that was originally created with a longer BLKSIZE and subsequently opened and written with a shorter BLKSIZE. Thus it would contain (perhaps even to this day) a block exceeding the length in the DSCB. This would cause I/O errors which could be circumvented by overriding to 32760.
>-----< snip>----- > >Really? >As somebody pointed out, the restriction was removed in MVS/ESA 4.3. >The only JCL I've seen, since that, with the 32760 specification is that >which hadn't been opened up since then. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
