Thanks to all who responded.  I have it running now on a test VM system.

Chuck Kreiter
Lead Systems Programmer
State Auto Insurance
  

-----Original Message-----
From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On
Behalf Of Jim Vincent
Sent: Wednesday, August 23, 2006 4:01 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Downloading Track Info

Mikey wrote> Many authors make things available after processing them
with
COPYFILE (PACK - which produces a file with LRECL 1024, RECFM F.

True but not in this case.  TRACKV52 VMARC is a good ol' VMARC file
plain
and simple - FIXED 80 records.  I don't COPYFILE (PACK it because it
only
adds noise to the process and usually doesn't help much; VMARC does a
nice
compaction job.

FWIW, I tweaked the instructions on the download page a little to
hopefully
help in understanding how to handle the file.

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