At 14:07 -0500 on 02/17/2012, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote about
Re: Archaic allocation in JCL (Was: Physical record size qu:
In
<CAPD5F5rThXaYbF32YgQMXK0bWTtXELh3X+XMOaUnKwPv=tt...@mail.gmail.com>,
on 02/17/2012
at 12:50 PM, John Gilmore <[email protected]> said:
is not really wrongheaded. It is an unfortunate oversimplification
for real DASD.
Not if you were only discussing conversion of the SPACE parameter. I
agree that carrying over BLKSIZE from generation to generation is
ghastly, albeit far too common.
I agree. OTOH: There are programs that were converted from DOS to MVS
(or were written by ex-DOS programmers) which have hard coded
Blocksizes instead of letting the dataset define them. Thus they stay
constant no matter what device you use.
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