On 15 May 2009 18:08:22 -0700, [email protected] (Clark
Morris) wrote:

>I checked the reference you gave and for QSAM files, if the BLOCK
>CONTAINS clause is omitted, BLOCK 1 RECORD is assumed.  This stupidity
>has aggravated me for years.

The whole idea of (IBM mainframe) CoBOL still caring about blocksize
is irritating.   The "fix" of making BLOCK CONTAINS 0 is IMHO, not the
way fixes should be.

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