Gilbert has a zap on CBT file 183 to overlay 3120 with zero in the OUTPUT
DCB of XMIT.  It may have to be reworked.

Regards,
John K

IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> wrote on
07/22/2013 11:28:26 AM:

> From: Charles Mills <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Date: 07/22/2013 11:28 AM
> Subject: Re: BLKSIZE=3120
> Sent by: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]>
>
> I took the giant leap several years ago and stopped using 3120 for TSO
XMIT.
> I hard-code 27920. Not as wonderful as 0, but better than 3120. Several
> years now with no issues.
>
> Charles
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Ed Jaffe
> Sent: Monday, July 22, 2013 9:08 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: BLKSIZE=3120
>
> A customer (mildly) complained thatsome of our product allocations still
use
> BLKSIZE=3120. I vaguely remember trying to change all of them to
> BLKSIZE=0 many years ago (probably before OS/390) and running into some
> issues with certain IBM utilities. Unfortunately, I can't remember the
> specifics.
>
> In starting to revisit this again, I noticed numerousoccurrences of
'3120'
> in IBM help and documentation. For example, the TSO/E RECEIVE command
HELP
> claims that the log data set must be BLKSIZE=3120:
>
> <TSO/E RECEIVE command HELP>
> LOGDATASET       You may specify an alternate data set to be
>                   used for the logging of the transmitted data.
>                   This data set will be created if it does not
>                   exist.  The data set should be created with
>                   a logical record length of 255, a record format
>                   of VB and a blocksize of 3120.
> ...
>
> LOGDSNAME        You may specify an alternate data set to be
>                   used for the logging of the transmitted data.
>                   This data set will be created if it does not
>                   exist.  The data set should be created with
>                   a logical record length of 255, a record format
>                   of VB and a blocksize of 3120.
> </TSO/E RECEIVE command HELP>
>
> Is this just outdated help? Or does this restriction still exist?

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