On Fri, 16 Sep 2022 15:04:06 +0000, Farley, Peter  wrote:

>More appropriately, since my ALLOC of SYSEXEC to a PATH specified 
>FILETYPE(TEXT), it seems to me that should signal to the system (whoever 
>creates and opens the SYSEXEC DCB) that the data in that file are 
>presumptively RECFM=V,LRECL=(some reasonable maximum like 4096).
> 
When have you ever seen a 4096-column keypunch?  80 is the only
reasonable value compatible with antiquated art, HLASM SYSIN, etc.

>I will try out both LRECL on the existing ALLOC and the BPXWDYN method and see 
>which works.
>
I wrote nastily, from memory, in my BPXWDYN suggestion.  Closer,
but still from memory:
    ADDRESS TSO "call *(bpxwdyn) 'concat DDLIST(SYSEXEC,DDname2[,DDnamex...])'"

-- 
gil

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