In <[email protected]>, on
02/19/2014
at 04:56 PM, David Speake <[email protected]> said:
>Can anyone tell me how the BSAM POINT macro works for tape.
What kind of tape? For open reel, the access method had to count
blocks. I don't know for sure whether BSAM takes advantage of the
block counting on newer drives, but the wording of TYPE=ABS is
suggestive.
>Also looked at the POPs manual section on I/O
That's the wrong place to look for information on specific devices.
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