Get a license to use z/OS and report your dissatisfaction to IBM. They really do not take complaints off IBM-MAIN.
On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:50:08 -0600, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >In: > > Title: z/OS V1R7.0 DFSMSdss Storage Administration Reference > Document Number: SC35-0424-06 > >Ouch. By experiment, some of this is false or incomplete, and >much of what is true is harmful. > >Further, why reduce LRECL if it exceeds 137? (Again, this >is permanent; in the label.) There's no constraint against >writing records shorter than LRECL to a RECFM=V[B]A data >set. And why, then, set BLKSIZE to 141? This is an adverse >blocking factor nowadays. Use what the programmer specified >if compatible with LRECL; else let OPEN fail and report it. >Again, I am far from a fan of utilities overriding the >attributes of existing data sets. > >This is likely WAD, but it feels as if no one reviewed that >design. > >-- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
