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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On
> Behalf Of Reichman Joseph
> Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 11:48 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: Bsam VS Qsam for VB records
> 
> Thanks for all your help I really understand the problem thing is the file is 
> huge and I don’t
> know by what factor DFSMS blocked and if the blocking is consistent meaning 
> always by
> the same factor

Since you already posted that you have no data class active and a null SMS 
configuration, it is unlikely that DFSMS has any effect on block size.  If the 
data was written with QSAM, then QSAM performed the blocking (per the DCB 
parameters specified on the DD statement used to identify the output dataset) 
as well as constructing the RDWs and BDW.

You also posted that the problem was with the BDW and not the RDWs.  What do 
you think the problem is?  How did you determine that?  Can you post the first 
8 bytes of the block in question (BDW+RDW, no proprietary data)?

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