A VBA,241,32760 should hold any output. SYSPUNCH was usually MSGCLASS=B. On Sun, Jan 18, 2026 at 9:44 AM Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote: > > Not DR, QA. Different TLA (TWO-letter Acronym!). But right, we don't need to > reconstitute it with the LRECL, we just need to be able to read it. If I > needed the LRECL I could put it in the file header (the separator in the > combined data set), I guess. > > And I guess I can infer from the "?" that a particular data set is a SYSPRINT > or thereabouts; I was just surprised by it. > > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Farley, Peter > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2026 3:44 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SDSF / ISFEXEC / ISFACT question > > I believe the OP’s original goal was stated to be the capture of the contents > of outstanding spooled jobs after a DR exercise. Whether particular parts of > the spooled jobs need or want to be a different RECFM or LRECL for later use > is IMHO not relevant to that goal. > > As for not depending on DD name for a qualifier in the spool file DSN, if you > look at the generated DSN’s for the spool files the qualifier before the > question mark is actually the unique qualifier: “Dnnnnnnn” where nnnnnnn is > the DSID, which is unique to each spool file. > > Peter > > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of > Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Saturday, January 17, 2026 12:31 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SDSF / ISFEXEC / ISFACT question > > > On Fri, 16 Jan 2026 17:26:59 +0000, Farley, Peter wrote: > > > > > >The SDSF Rexx interface returns the LRECL of all splol files in the job as > >one of the arrays returned from the action character “?” against a job. One > >only needs to pre-scan the LRECL array for the largest value and allocate > >the single output file as RECFM=VB with that maximum LRECL + 4 and no issues > >should occur in writing output to that file from all spool files in the job. > > > > > That does poorly for SYSPUNCH. for example. Various subsequent > > utilities may require FB, 80, 3120. > > > > Phil's example showed only a job log. If that's all he wants to capture, > > the attributes are known a priori. > > > > I once broke SDSF edge testing with a SYSOUt record with 32752 > > data bytes. Fixed by APAR, peculiarly limited because of Hyrum's Law. > > > > DDon't rely on DDNAME as a qualifier. Duplicates can occur with > > DYNALLOC; FREE; DYNALLOC. > > > > -- > > This message and any attachments are intended only for the use of the > addressee and may contain information that is privileged and confidential. If > the reader of the message is not the intended recipient or an authorized > representative of the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any > dissemination of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have > received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by e-mail > and delete the message and any attachments from your system. > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to > [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
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