Why not just create a VBA file with a very long LRECL and not worry about it at all? Longer LRECLs don't introduce any more oveReader than short ones.
-teD Original Message From: Kjell Holmborg Sent: Wednesday, March 2, 2016 02:54 To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Reply To: IBM Mainframe Discussion List Subject: Re: rexx and tso alllocate One suggestion might be that your rexx program writes records to a stem variable and you could keep track of the longest record and then just before writing the contents of the stem variables to the dataset you do a TSO Allocate with the longest record as a variable to the ALLOCATE command. /Kjell ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
