On 25Aug29:1101+0200, Radoslaw Skorupka wrote:

> AFAIK the track overflow feature is no longer supported. For years.
> Actually it is one of the things I have never met in real world but it was
> mentioned in the documentation. Like CVOL.
> 
> Regarding track overflow - does it mean the following?
> 1. Block is being written to track. However the block is too long, so the
> remaining part is written on another track.
> 2. The tracks have to be consecutive (or not?)
> 3. The block can occupy one, two or more tracks. Or only one or two?
> 4. Track space after last part of the block cannot be used by any other
> block, that means it remain unused.
> 
> BTW: Is there any (historical) documentation about track overflow? Just
> curious, obviously it has no practical meaning nowadays. ;-)

See page 62 of
http://bitsavers.informatik.uni-stuttgart.de/pdf/ibm/360/os/R01-08/C28-6646-0_Supervisor_and_Data_Management_Services_Feb67.pdf
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