On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:29:47 +0000, Roy Hewitt wrote: >> >> Hmmm. The largest divisor of 80 I could use is 40. This cuts the >> efficency to 50% from your 80% with TERSE. That's still acceptable, >> and I don't need TERSE which is not yet a standard IBM utility at >> all supported releases. > >Just to clarify, 64 has to be a factor of the blocksize, not the record >length, so with FB 80, blksize=8000, you could still split up to 64 byte >chunks >> What happens if the last block contains 7920 characters, which is not a multiple of 64?
If the dangling partial record were not a problem, one could use BLKSIZE=6320 (i.e. 79*80), indent only one column, and use 79 characters per line. -- 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
