I just used Option 3.2 and allocated a PDSE with LRECL 80 and Blksize 0 with Version 2 (z/OS V2.1)
No issues - it took it fine and the Blksize is 32760. Lizette > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 5:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: SDB and Program Object Library > > In order to copy a load module library to a progam object library I used ISPF > Data Set Utility to allocate the new library with DSNTYPE=LIBRARY. Believing > that "SDB knows best," I left BLKSIZE blank. ISPF warned me. I told it, > "Trust me." I went to Move/Copy Utility and tried the copy. It failed: can't > deal with BLKSIZE=0. > Curious, I deleted and re-created with BLKSIZE=1(!?) and retried the copy. > Succeeded, and as a side effect set BLKSIZE to 4096. > > Is there any rationale to this logic, that BLKSIZE=0, which is supposed to > defer the choice to SDB, fails, while the absurd BLKSIZE=1 succeeds and SDB > operates? > > -- gil > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
