Hi We received a request from the developers to create a dataset with LRECL > 32727. They will be receiving data from the open systems environment that will be + 52000 bytes long and need to process that data.
I found the following in the archives but have no idea how to do it. >Actually, your suggestions 3-4 are the same. LRECL cannot exceed 32760 unless RECFM=VBS (variable spanned). You can't allocate a dataset with a LRECL over 32760, but you can code it in a DCB. To use QSAM with a LRECL over 32760, you must use LRECL=X and special QSAM coding. So, it would have to be specially written assembler program. Item #13228 (15 Jul 2005 18:37) - Re: A very simple yes/no question about LRECL From: "ANTONIO FONSECA (ESI-Sistemas)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: A very simple yes/no question about LRECL MIME-version: 1.0 Actually, your suggestions 3-4 are the same. LRECL cannot exceed 32760 unless RECFM=VBS (variable spanned). You can't allocate a dataset with a LRECL over 32760, but you can code it in a DCB. To use QSAM with a LRECL over 32760, you must use LRECL=X and special QSAM coding. So, it would have to be specially written assembler program. Even given that you can use VSAM spanned or variable spanned PS, the next issue is how does he get the data into the dataset. He would have to devise some funky way of reading the outside data in pieces, assembling it into the 32761 byte record and writing it to the output dataset.< Kind Regards, Sarel Swanepoel Service Availability: Service & Business Capacity Management South African Revenue Services Office: +27 (0)12 422 5033 Mobile: +27 (0)82 4927 321 Fax: +27 (0)12 422 6068 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Web Site: "In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it." -- Robert Heinlein -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Timothy Sipples Sent: 18 July 2008 11:13 AM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: IBM's 2Q2008 Earnings Ed Finnell writes: >I read thru the thing at http://www.ibm.com/investor/2q08/ and it >looked like a lot of consolidation back to the mainframe-most likely >z/VM and z/Linux. Especially if you look at decline in i-System on >p.21. You have to be very careful about the System i numbers though, and Loughridge explained this. When you buy a new system to run IBM i OS, you are now increasingly buying System p branded servers. IBM is phasing out separate branded hardware as the models get updated. (For some years now the underlying hardware has been virtually identical anyway -- the POWER microprocessors definitely -- but now it's official.) So some of the System p sales are to run i OS (on the whole server or part of the server), and reported System i sales reflect only System i branded server models. That's my understanding anyway, and I think that's reflected in the statement. Yes, IFLs are one of the specialty engine types doing very well. The others are zAAPs and zIIPs. - - - - - Timothy Sipples IBM Consulting Enterprise Software Architect Specializing in Software Architectures Related to System z Based in Tokyo, Serving IBM Japan and IBM Asia-Pacific E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
