Both SMS and non-SMS allocations yield the same result here for PS. Regards, John Kalinich
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On Tue, 2006-02-14 at 10:03 -0600, John P Kalinich wrote:
> I have found that DSORG PS and PO don't always get half track blocking
with
> SDB. For example, SDB picks a BLKSIZE of 7000 for LRECL 7000.
Interesting. On my system (z/OS 1.3... yeah, I know) an extended
sequential dataset at LRECL=6991 yields BLKSIZE=27964. LRECL=6992
yields BLKSIZE=6992.
But change to non-SMS allocation, and LRECL=6992 yields BLKSIZE=27968.
The plot thickens.
David Andrews
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