On Tuesday, 08/15/2006 at 03:08 MST, "Schuh, Richard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have just loaded a big CP dump. When I list the file, I get: > > list prb00000 dump0001 f (label > FILENAME FILETYPE FM FORMAT LRECL RECS BLOCKS DATE TIME LABEL > PRB00000 DUMP0001 F1 F 4096 734914 731217 8/15/06 21:01:14 DMP191 > > How is it that a format F file having LRECL 4096 uses 3697 fewer blocks than > there are records when the disk is formatted with a block size of 4096?
That indicates that the file is "sparse". That is, DUMPLOAD didn't write blocks for page frames of all zero. I think that the dump file itself only contains non-zero pages. So I'd interpret that as there were 3697 pages that were all zero. Alan Altmark z/VM Development IBM Endicott
