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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
>
> [ snip ]
> My question is, why should there be a limit of 32761? I understand the
> signed halfword format imposes
> a limit of 32767. I see no reason for any smaller limit.
In a VSAM Control Interval (CI), the CIDF is 4 bytes (think "BDW") but the RDF
is three bytes (think "RDW"). So, with VSAM you get an extra byte of space.
:-)
-jc-
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