On Thu, 10 Sep 2009 15:44:12 -0500, Rick Fochtman wrote: > >Which is more effieient for CLIST/REXX libraries? the choices are >"RECFM=FB, LRECL=255" or "RECFM=FB,LRECL=80"? > >I lean toward the VB-format...
My personal preference is FB-80, not because it is more "efficient" but because that's the way IBM ships and maintains their CLIST and ReXX libraries. I don't like to have to take the extra step to convert them. I suspect that a VB copy takes up a little less space than the FB originals, but then you have an additional copy of those that you have to convert. Whichever way the shop is run today, converting to the other format is probably more trouble than it is worth, especially if you have many users with their own libraries that are concatenated with the system and product libraries. In any case, today's mainframe DASD sells for about $100 per GB and getting cheaper. How much should I care about a little more disk space? -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
