On Thu, 1 Jan 2026 21:49:34 -0500, Joseph Reichman wrote: > ... >Since most snap DCB goes to DASD why have RECFM=VBA VB would be good > The principle is "I/O abstraction". The application (e.g. SNAP) needn't care and shouldn't know whether a DD statement allocates a data set to DASD, printer, or tape. The code is the same.
(z/OS does this relatively well; CMS very poorly.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
