>From "CA 1®Tape Management Systems Programmer Guide r11.5 SP5"
BLKSIZE TMBLKSI 96(60) BIN 4 MAXIMUM BLOCK SIZE JFCB JFCBLKSI

4 bytes are used to store the block size.

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IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on 
02/08/2013 03:11:59 PM:

> From: Neil Duffee <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date: 02/08/2013 03:12 PM
> Subject: Re: blksize for ML2 migrated dataset via HSM
> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
> 
> Caveat:  I get the daily digest so you folx've probably already 
> hashed this to death...
> 
> Not sure about signed/unsigned but CA-1(R) r12.6 will not store a 
> value >032760.  FDR/ABR dumps backup records in approx. track length
> ie. 57k-ish for our 3390-3s, but they are recorded with the 032760 
> value in CA-1.  I discovered this while trying to generate an Earl 
> report showing the amount of data stored on our tapes.  ("How many 
> 3592 tapes would we have to buy?")  Had to manually fudge the 
> results for FDR/ABR tapes otherwise I was under-reporting them by 1-
> (32/57) percent.
> 
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> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: retired mainframer [mailto:[email protected]] 
> Sent: February 7, 2013 21:04
> Subject: Re: blksize for ML2 migrated dataset via HSM
> 
> If memory serves, the CA1 TMC uses 16 bits to store the blksize. 
> Even when treated as unsigned, it won't show more than 65535.
> [snip]
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