Not me! But the OP is free to use any RECFM he likes -- my point was the format of the command, not recommending a particular RECFM.
Not many things *require* FBS but "DFSMS Using Data Sets" does say "A sequential data set with standard format records (format-FS or -FBS) sometimes can be read more efficiently than a data set with format-F or -FB records. This efficiency is possible because the system is able to determine the address of each record to be read, because each track contains the same number of blocks." (p. 295) I tend to use it when efficiency might be important. So long as you are not using MOD (granted, a biggie) or TRUNC (the last time I used TRUNC was in the eighties) I think FBS carries no penalty in terms of what you can and cannot do. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Thompson, Steve Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 2:02 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: EXTRA! Xtreme 3270 emulator and FTP -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Charles Mills Sent: Friday, December 18, 2009 12:59 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: EXTRA! Xtreme 3270 emulator and FTP Have you looked at the site command? Depending on your FTP client, you may have to quote it, i.e., quote site blksize=8000 lrecl=80 recfm=fbs Charles <SNIP> Are you sure you want Fixed Block Standard (FBS)? The only thing I know that seems to demand this is IPCS. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
