https://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBTF1.txt
Says File 183 member ZAPXMIT removes the BLK(3120) from the ODS command.

//*  ZAPXMIT   Patch job - Remove BLKSIZE(3120) from XMIT OUTDA()   *   FILE 183
//*            cmd                                                  *   FILE 183
//*                                                                 *   FILE 183
//*            This patch to the TRANSMIT command sets the BLKSIZE  *   FILE 183
//*            of the output data set to zero when TRANSMIT/XMIT    *   FILE 183
//*            is invoked with the OUTDA or OUTDS parameter.        *   FILE 183
//*            This version of the ZAP works on TSO/E 2.6.          *   FILE 183
//*                                                                 *   FILE 183
//***FILE 184


On Sun, Dec 7, 2025 at 10:30 PM James Mulder <[email protected]> wrote:

>   I would have guessed that when RECEIVE creates a target data set, it
> would use the blocksize of the TRANSMITted data set.  Are you seeing some
> other behavior?
> I would also guess that if you RECEIVE into a data set that you have
> already allocated, which has a block size in the DSCB, RECEIVE shouldn't
> change it.
>
>   I do know that TRANSMIT and RECEIVE hardcode BLKSIZE3120 in their DCBs
> for the log data set.  That really irked me several decades ago, and I
> showed the
> owners at the time how to fix that, but they refused to do it.  Of course,
> they are all long gone from IBM now so I suppose I could just do it myself
> if I ever get around to it.
> I did change TRANSMIT and RECEIVE from 24-bit to 31-bit addressing mode in
> z/OS 3.2 so that they could access ASCBs in 31-bit storage.
>
>   Jim Mulder
>
> >No, that is not the issue I have.  We are receiving large XMIT datasets
> from an ISV
> >which require large amounts of DASD, greater than a 3390-9.  If the XMIT
> datasets
> >used SDB, the space requirements would be greatly reduced (I reblocked
> them after
> >they were staged).
>
>
> Jim Mulder z/OS Diagnosis, Design, Development, Test  IBM Corp.
> Poughkeepsie NY
>
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