Perhaps TRSMAIN On 10/17/05, Bruce Black <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >Is there a utility program that can copy 56k blocks from DASD to tape, > >or to another DASD data set with BLKSIZE=32760? The record format is > >VBS and the data set was created in VSE. > > > >I tried to write a quick-and-dirty (Q&D) program to do it but neither > >LBI nor BSAM will read large blocks from DASD. I could use EXCP > >instead, of course, but that would definitely take the Q out of Q&D. > > > I am not sure if this will work on disk (I know that it works on tape). > > Use your BSAM program, but override the DCB to RECFM=U and BLKSIZE=32760. > But in the READ, override the blocksize to 56K (with RECFM=U, on tape at > least, BSAM does not care that the read length is larger than the > blocksize). > > You will have to break down the VBS blocks yourself, reblock them, and > write them to the disk output with BSAM or QSAM. > This is probably in the category of somewhat quick and a little dirty. > > -- > Bruce A. Black > Senior Software Developer for FDR > Innovation Data Processing 973-890-7300 > personal: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > sales info: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > tech support: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > web: www.innovationdp.fdr.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 >
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