On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:06:20 +0000, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: >Oh boy, did someone go off on a tangent. > >Let me throw in my $0.02 on this: > >#1. YES, the RDW (4 bytes) MUST BE included in the length specified in LRECL= >#2. From the MVS JCL Reference: the value of LRECL is either: "1 to 32,760 >for non-VSAM data sets." Or " 1 to 32,761 for VSAM key-sequenced (KS), >entry-sequenced (ES), or relative record (RR) data sets. (LRECL does not apply >to VSAM linear space, RECORG=LS, data sets.)" > >So specifying 32,767 exceeds the maximum allowed, just as the error message >states. > My question is, why should there be a limit of 32761? I understand the signed halfword format imposes a limit of 32767. I see no reason for any smaller limit.
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