On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 11:24:57 -0500, Joseph Reichman wrote:

>It disk then documentation says the system only supports tape at this time is 
>That true ?
> 
Have you any reason to doubt it?

I suspect it's a hardware limitation.

>> On Mar 1, 2021, at 11:22 AM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>> 
>> On Mon, 1 Mar 2021 09:12:59 -0500, Joseph Reichman wrote:
>> 
>>> I have 100 files concatenated that are normally processed by qsam with a 
>>> lrecl 31996 and blksize 32000
>>> 
>>> Since processing takes a long time I was looking to speed things up by 
>>> specifying a blksize of 320000 in the DCBE 
>>> 
>> What device type?
>> 
>>> After the first read using bsam read macro I looked at the first 4 bytes ( 
>>> Block descriptor word ) and it was x’7C4A’ which is 31,888 which seemed to 
>>> me that it was still processing blksize of 32,000 

-- gil

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