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E-mail: john.ab...@intnlsoftwareproducts.com Web: www.ispinfo.com This email may contain confidential and privileged material for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). Any review, use, retention, distribution or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive on behalf of the named recipient), please contact the sender by reply email and delete all copies of this message. Also,email is susceptible to data corruption, interception, tampering, unauthorized amendment and viruses. We only send and receive emails on the basis that we are not liable for any such corruption, interception, tampering, amendment or viruses or any consequence thereof. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, December 16, 2014 1:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: RECFM=VBS,LRECL=32767? On Tue, 16 Dec 2014 18:06:20 +0000, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: >Oh boy, did someone go off on a tangent. > >Let me throw in my $0.02 on this: > >#1. YES, the RDW (4 bytes) MUST BE included in the length specified in >LRECL= #2. From the MVS JCL Reference: the value of LRECL is either: "1 to >32,760 for non-VSAM data sets." Or " 1 to 32,761 for VSAM key-sequenced (KS), >entry-sequenced (ES), or relative record (RR) data sets. (LRECL does not apply >to VSAM linear space, RECORG=LS, data sets.)" > >So specifying 32,767 exceeds the maximum allowed, just as the error message >states. > 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. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
