Paul Gilmartin wrote: >I get: > 6 //DD7 DD UNIT=SYSALLDA,SPACE=(1,0),RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32767 > STMT NO. MESSAGE > > 6 IEF638I SPECIFIED NUMERIC EXCEEDS MAXIMUM ALLOWED IN THE LRECL > SUBPARAMETER OF THE DCB FIELD >Why is this considered an error?
I am still finding it 'Weird', but it is WAD and for backward compatibility or for possible max blocksize to be used. What dataset (VSAM, PS, PDS, OMVS, etc.) are you using? >In fact, 32761 is accepted; 32762 causes the error. On what rationale is this >based? The same limts appear to apply to RECFM=VB. I haven't tried OPENing any >such data set. Ok. 32767 is x'7FFF'. I suspect it is something about record length and probably something about ability to store a record length in the first 4 bytes. Granted, for SMF, I cannot use 32767 in JCL, but had to use a lower number (32760 - x'7FF8'), but IFASMFDP will change it to 32767 anyways. It is one of the Big Blue mysteries... ;-D Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
