Shmuel, Thanks. I'm an XA child, and I was under the impression that the IO mechanism for Fetch changed going from SP2 to XA.
So you are saying that the largest BLKSIZE first restriction on JOBLIB/STEPLIB did not apply before XA. I did not know that, but I do now. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 8:00 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Concatenations and blocksizes > > In <000301ca1735$86fa8130$94ef83...@hawkins1960@sbcglobal.net>, on > 08/07/2009 > at 01:03 AM, Ron Hawkins <ron.hawkins1...@sbcglobal.net> said: > > >The largest blksize first restriction did go away with for Fetch in XA, > > There was no such restriction for Fetch. The various restrictions for PO > and PS went away with various releases of DFP and DFSMS. > > -- > Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT > ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> > We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. > (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
