On Tue, 2007-08-14 at 15:43 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > has anybody seen a single logical type 30 record which has been "split" > into multiple physical type 30 records?
Yes. We have a few (big) jobs that cause this. > Is such a logical record > guaranteed to have its "segments" physically contiguous? I'd very much doubt that. > I am also worried that the "first segment" could be written to one > MANx dataset and that record causes SMF to switch to another MAN > dataset. Ouch. Good catch. > Any words of wisdom? Is there some SORT that I could do which would > guarantee that the "split" type 30s would be in order after the sort? I don't think they have to be in order, 'cause they aren't segments in the traditional sense. Each record can stand alone, and contains complete sections. -- David Andrews A. Duda and Sons, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
