I did mean 80 byte Lrecl. I have a blocksize of 800, which is fine, because all of the Uads entries I looked at had 10 lines.
Eric ---- Gerhard Postpischil <[email protected]> wrote: > Eric Bielefeld wrote: > > Thanks John. Now I know why the userids in UADS end in 0. > > Since I don't have any that end in other than 0, I'll just > > leave it as is at 80 bytes blocks. > > I sure hope you meant record length. On the MVS 3.8 > distribution, the block size is 800; for production systems I > had a device dependent size between 3K and 4K. I haven't > actually counted the bytes used, but an 80 byte block may be > borderline (the data contain several length fields and pointers). > > > > Gerhard Postpischil > Bradford, VT -- Eric Bielefeld Systems Programmer Washington University St Louis, Missouri 314-935-3418 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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

