Great detective work.

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
Of Tom Marchant
Sent: Friday, January 19, 2018 7:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] VSAM Performance - CPU reduction

On Fri, 19 Jan 2018 14:37:31 +0100, R.S. wrote:

>IMHO the CISZ was up to 32kB for a veeery long time (since VSAM 
>beginning perhaps).
>The most important is one could use any CISZ on any disk geometry, 
>including 3380 or 3350, or older.
>Of course PB (Physical Block) could be different, as well as number or 
>PB per CI.

The OS/MVS Overview manual, GC28-0984-0, dated June, 1978, is available on 
bitsavers at 
http://bitsavers.trailing-edge.com/pdf/ibm/370/OS_VS2/Release_3.7_1977/GC28-0984-0_OS_VS2_MVS_Overview_Rel_3.7_Jun78.pdf

On pages 8-18 and 8-19 (151-152) talks about control intervals and has this:

<quote>
The size of the control interval need not correspond to the size of a track on 
the device. Figure 8.9 shows the independence of control intervals from 
physical records, which are limited by the capacity of a track on a particular 
device.
</quote>

This confirms Ron's and Radoslaw's memory.

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Tom Marchant

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