Bigger the better, but I just use SDB :) Dave Gibney Information Technology Services Washington State University
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Lizette Koehler > Sent: Thursday, March 26, 2009 10:22 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Optimal Tape Blocksize > > 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 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
