Those of us who received unlabeled tapes in the "good" old days lived by 
this technique.  The only down side was when there were one or more blocks 
not a multiple of the override LRECL.  Then things got interesting.

IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 
12/11/2012 04:08:42 PM:

> From: Bill Ashton <[email protected]>

> Gerhard, I just tried this - what a hoot! I never would have thought of
> it...Thanks for such a simple suggestion - I will keep this JCL around!

> Billy

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 3:55 PM, Gerhard Postpischil 
> <[email protected]>wrote:

> > On 12/11/2012 3:44 PM, Gibney, Dave wrote:

> >> I've never used it, but this seems to be a basic function of 
IEBGENER(and
> >> therefore SYNC/ICE GENER)
> >> .8.2.5 RECORD Statement

> > All this is overkill. A simple gener will do:

> > // EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
> > //SYSPRINT DD SYSOUT=*
> > //SYSIN DD DUMMY
> > //SYSUT1 DD DSN=old.ds,DISP=SHR,
> > //          DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=82)
> > //SYSUT2 DD DSN=new.ds,DISP=(,CATLG)...**etc.
> > //          DCB=(RECFM=FB,LRECL=82,**BLKSIZE=0)

> > Gerhard Postpischil
> > Bradford, Vermont


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