Accurate observation always trumps the book! Manuals can be wrong. Or maybe they meant for it to use LBI and messed up.
-- John McKown Systems Engineer IV IT Administrative Services Group HealthMarkets(r) 9151 Boulevard 26 * N. Richland Hills * TX 76010 (817) 255-3225 phone * john.mck...@healthmarkets.com * www.HealthMarkets.com Confidentiality Notice: This e-mail message may contain confidential or proprietary information. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact the sender by reply e-mail and destroy all copies of the original message. HealthMarkets(r) is the brand name for products underwritten and issued by the insurance subsidiaries of HealthMarkets, Inc. -The Chesapeake Life Insurance Company(r), Mid-West National Life Insurance Company of TennesseeSM and The MEGA Life and Health Insurance Company.SM > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Norbert Friemel > Sent: Monday, August 08, 2011 11:26 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu > Subject: Re: CA-FAVER and LBI > > On Mon, 8 Aug 2011 10:42:24 -0500, McKown, John wrote: > > >Yes, from the manual: > > > ><quote> > >The FAVER2 Transparency uses the Large Block Interface (LBI) > to read the > >| CA-FAVER2 tapes. LBI was introduced in OS/390 2.10 and is > available in all levels > >| of z/OS. CA-FAVER2 is capable of writing tape blocks with > a BLKSIZE of 64K, so > >| the DEVSUPxx member of your SYS1.PARMLIB should specify a > TAPEBLKSZLIM > >| of at least 64K. > ></quote> > > > > No, from my observation: > GVEXPORT (V4.5.0) always overrides the BLKSIZE from JCL with > a BLKSIZE <= 32760. It's probably only GVRESTOR that uses the > LBI to read tapes created with the VSE version. > > ... and now for another "DCB override discussion"... NOT! > > Norbert Friemel > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
