There is a setting in your Natural Nucleus parms for blksize, it should be set to use SDB. I'm not our NAT admin, I don't remember the specific parm or value.
> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Walter Marguccio > Sent: Friday, March 27, 2009 5:05 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Optimal Tape Blocksize > > From: "Vernooy, C.P. - SPLXM" <[email protected]> > > > The order is: F1DSCB, which can be overruled by JCL, which can be > > overruled by the application at OPEN time. > > Kees, Ted, Terry, > > thanks very much for your reply. I first looked at 'z/OS 1.9 DSMS Using > Data Sets', > but could not find such a direct statement. I will pass this info to our > programmers > and see how Natural can make a better use of blksize when data is written > to tape. > > Walter Marguccio > z/OS Systems Programmer > BELENUS LOB Informatic GmbH > Munich - Germany > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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

