WTF? TSO has supported LRECL=255 for over half a century. Don't be confused by 
IBM shipping code in an archaic form factor.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of 
Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, September 16, 2022 11:52 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: How to use LISTDSI from Rexx under Unix shell?

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...])'"

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gil

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