In <038a01ca8016$b4a0e6c0$1de2b4...@org>, on 12/18/2009
at 02:17 PM, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> said:
>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.
That's certainly true for random access, but for sequential reads it's a
wash. The CCW chain might be slightly shorter because it doesn't need a
Read Count, but I doubt that the difference would be noticeable.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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