Frank, Thanks for your response. I will save the link.
I have more information than I had earlier. A colleague was trying to read a VB large block tape data set, and it was failing. Their comment to me was that LBI did not work with DF/SORT. When I couldn't find anything (due to the difference in keywords), I posted the question. What they meant by "didn't work" and what I interpreted it to mean were two different things. In my mind, I guess, it would not have occurred to me the DF/SORT would have an error in the code (it is rock-solid, thank you), so I thought he meant it was not supported. He has since opened an incident with IBM support. So apparently, there is officially support for tape VB LBI for SORTIN data sets, just at the moment it has a flaw in it. IEBGENER appears to be able to read the tape without a problem, but curiously, not IDCAMS. Tom Harper -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Yaeger Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: IDCAMS and DF/SORT support for LBI Tom Harper wrote on 09/14/2006 03:24:00 PM: > Thanks! I searched using "Large Block Interface" and "LBI", the usually > keywords for this... We refer to it by the function name of "Larger Tape Block Sizes", rather than "LBI" which is the interface name (that is, the way the support is provided). Just kind of an "external" vs "internal" thing. BTW, if you're ever curious about what was supported in DFSORT when, you can find out by checking the pdf at: http://www.ibm.com/servers/storage/support/software/sort/mvs/summary_cha nges/srtmsocc.html Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Team (IBM) Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
