In <[email protected]>, on 07/17/2014
at 04:04 PM, Thomas David Rivers <[email protected]> said:
>I've been wading thru the documentation (DFSMS Using Data Sets),
>etc... trying to figure out why the DCBBLKSI field of my DCB is not
>being filled in for a RECFM=U data set for INPUT.
Are there data in the data set, or are you trying to read it
immediately after allocating it? If the former, what's in the DCB used
to write to it? If the latter, why would you expect anything but
garbage?
>But - the file is catalogued, I would have expected the DCBBLKSI
>field to get the BLOCK SIZE from the catalog?
That would be a good stunt; it's not in the catalog.
>Does anyone know why the DCBBLKSI field would not be filled in ?
ITYM "why the DCBBLKSI field would be filled in with zero", and the
answer is that the only programs to open it for output had DCBBLKSI of
zero.
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