Gil, My statement is poorly worded. I know it is not a restriction from XA forward. I was just surprised that it was not required prior to XA Fetch.
Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of > Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, August 10, 2009 11:37 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: [IBM-MAIN] Concatenations and blocksizes > > On Mon, 10 Aug 2009 10:43:55 -0700, Ron Hawkins wrote: > > > >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. > > > And apparently still doesn't. By a crude experiment: > > //STEP EXEC PGM=IEFBR14 > //STEPLIB DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SYS1.LINKLIB,BLKSIZE=1 > > Worked fine. > > (But did I really test what I thought I tested?) > > >> -----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 > >> > >> >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. > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
