Ken, Mike, ... Ask whoever is providing DASD to your systems if they can offer anything FBA. Just ask. Can't hurt. The worst you'll get is the deer-in-the-headlights response.
The physical blocksize for VDISK (which is emulated from VM host memory) is 512 bytes. Should reduce your loss in "tails". But if you can find *real* FBA disk, ... You get the idea. Real FBA do exist and likewise have the 512-byte blocksize. The hard part is getting the DASD provider to understand. -- R;
