The DASD documentation uses the term record.

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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz
http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3

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Subject: Re: Unlike data sets concatenation - revised

On Wed, 26 Apr 2023 13:44:21 -0700, Michael Stein wrote:

>>  000234D0   E6D9D5C7   4BD3C5D5   4BD9C5C3   D6D9C46B   | WRNG.LEN.RECORD, |
>
>A likely result from reading a block larger than the blksize.
>
Why does it say "RECORD" if it means "Block"?

>    ...
>What does the *SOURCE* DCB & JCL look like?  Do either specify LRECL
>and/or BLKSIZE?
>
Just cut the Gordian Knot and specify the largest BLKSIZE expected; even 32760.
LRECL likewise. Storage is cheap nowadays.

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gil

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