Tom Harper wrote on 09/14/2006 05:56:24 PM: > Frank, > 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.
Tom, I was just "consulting" with IBM service on this incident and we believe the problem is a user error that has to do with the LRECL being used, and not with LBI. But we need to confirm this with the customer. Frank Yaeger - DFSORT Team (IBM) Specialties: PARSE, JFY, SQZ, ICETOOL, IFTHEN, OVERLAY, Symbols, Migration => DFSORT/MVS is on the Web at http://www.ibm.com/storage/dfsort/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
