It is certainly true that BLKSIZE= values now have less importance than they had on spnning physical CKD DASD, but that is not very important. It is almost irrelevant.
I/O performance is very much better for large BLKSIZE= values. This is now indeed the principal rationale for using them. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN