Tape devices for BLKSIZE greater than 64K-1. You have to chain a number of CCW's together for a BLKSIZE=256K.
Chris Blaicher Principal Software Engineer, Software Development Syncsort Incorporated 50 Tice Boulevard, Woodcliff Lake, NJ 07677 P: 201-930-8260 | M: 512-627-3803 E: [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerhard Postpischil Sent: Monday, December 09, 2013 12:54 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: "hexadecimal"? On 12/9/2013 11:53 AM, Scott Ford wrote: > Bill, > I thought you could chain ccws I think you misread his message, which started with command chaining. But I would be interested in which control units and controllers allow data chaining beyond 65KiB. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, Vermont ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
