On Fri, 2 Jan 2026 12:14:17 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Because it's a printable dataset. > But if it's never printed it needlessly squanders an additional <1% of precious DASD.
If RECFM were merged at OPEN, the application could easily be multi pathed to issue A, M, or none accordingly. Doesn't HLAAM do part of that for SYSPRINT? I once wrote a dump routine sensitive to JCL LRECL, to format for either terminal or printer. It was little used. >________________________________________ >From: f Joseph Reichman >Sent: Thursday, January 1, 2026 9:49 PM > ... >Since most snap DCB goes to DASD why have RECFM=VBA VB would be good >enough I thought SVC 51 aka snap/sdump uses these to insert blank lines -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
