I am going to be doing an analysis on our tapes to see if they are optimally 
blocked.  We are using VTS that looks like 3490E tapes.

Is there a good rule of thumb for all datasets on tape - that to be blocked 
optimally use X?

The lrecls on these tape range from 80 to 10399

Lizette

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