I have only seen fb80 and vb255. Never saw vb259. Dennis Roach, CISSP, PMP AIG IAM Access Administration – Infrastructure | Identity & Access Management
2929 Allen Parkway, America Building, 3rd Floor | Houston, TX 77019 Phone: 713-831-8799 [email protected] | www.aig.com -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ed Jaffe Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2016 1:00 PM To: [email protected] Subject: LRECL=255 vs LRECL=259 My whole life I have seen variable length CLIST/EXEC libraries allocated as RECFM=VB w/LRECL=259. Clearly, the intent was to allow up to 255-character source lines. At PSI, we provide the option for customers to allocate our CLIST/EXEC libraries either RECFM=FB w/LRECL=80 or RECFM=VB w/LRECL=259. One customer claims the industry-standard for RECFM=VB CLIST/EXEC libraries is LRECL=255 rather than LRECL=259. LRECL=255 would allow for only 251-character source lines, which seems rather strange to me. Of course, my personal observations and experiences provide nothing more than anecdotal evidence. Like a man with two watches being unsure of the time, I am now unsure if LRECL=259 is widespread practice or if I was observing only outliers. Any insight would be appreciated... -- Edward E Jaffe Phoenix Software International, Inc 831 Parkview Drive North El Segundo, CA 90245 http://www.phoenixsoftware.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
