On Fri, 27 Mar 2009 02:54:10 -0700, Walter Marguccio wrote: > >I agree 100%. I told our programmers long ago to stick to >BLKSIZE=0 *and* DSORG=PS for datasets on DASD. This always work >(BLKSIZE close to half track).
This is not always true.... > >I can't understand why such poor BLKSIZE are chosen. I would really appreciate >if anyone could shed some light on this. > When we switched, we found some programs specify block sizes and blocking factors. If this happens, SDB doesn't get invoked. In this case, you HAVE to specify a reasonable blocksize in your JCL. I haven't seen this happen with any utilities, but I do see utilities propogating a bad blocksize from the input. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
