-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ward, Mike S Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 8:38 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: BLOCK CONTAINS
What if a new device came out and there was a better optimum blocksize for it? Wouldn't you have to recompile everthing that used that file to get the optimum blocksize? I don't know I'm just asking. <SNIPPAGE> Under VSE that would be true for other than VSAM access. Under MVS you would have to go out of your way to get into this problem of being blocksize dependent. Granted, this was done in days when there were different device geometries (2314, 3330, 3340, 3375, 3380, 3390). But as has been and will be pointed out, as long as you specify BLKSIZE=0, you will get System Determined Blocksize which will handle this situation. Regards, Steve Thompson -- Opinions expressed by this poster may not reflect those of poster's employer. -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
