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Even given that you can use VSAM spanned or variable spanned PS, the
next issue is how does he get the data into the dataset. He would have
to devise some funky way of reading the outside data in pieces,
assembling it into the 32761 byte record and writing it to the output
dataset.<
I believe you can do the latter (PS) with BSAM. But I grant that
many regard BSAM as funky.
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IIRC, it can be done with QSAM as well. I can't remember the details but
it had something to do with the LRECL field of the DCB.
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