>Your speculation is correct. Access methods calculate the amount of >space left on a track (TRKBAL?). This is so that they know whether the >block to be written to the end of a dataset (a new physical block) will >fit on the current track or needs to be written to the first record of >the next track.
One reason I speculated the maximum track size would be 64k. Peter Hunkeler Credit Suisse ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
