On Wed, 24 Jul 2013 09:44:13 -0400, John Eells wrote: > >IEBCOPY COPYMOD, though, has no trouble at all reblocking load modules >that are "blocked at"* 32760, and behaves in much the same way the >Binder does. ... > I had thought that IEBCOPY invokes Binder under-the-covers, so I'd expect very similar behavior.
>* Both the Binder and IEBCOPY use the block size only to set the maximum >size of a text block to be written, and write shorter ones under some >conditons. All the other records are typically written in short blocks. > And I believe that Binder is one of very few IBM utilities that employs track balancing, reblocking to exploit residual space in a track. I don't believe that QSAM, for example, generally does this. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
