So maybe something in your ACS routines is causing your trouble?

Yes, I did the allocation with 0 specified in the BLKSIZE and BLANK.  Worked 
fine..

Lizette


> -----Original Message-----
> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On
> Behalf Of Lizette Koehler
> Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 6:25 PM
> To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: SDB and Program Object Library
> 
> 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:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU]
> > On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> > Sent: Wednesday, January 11, 2017 5:12 PM
> > To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU
> > 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

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