On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Reichman Joseph <joseph.reich...@irs.gov> wrote:
> As Far as I can see all the I/O we do here is qsam There was an issue > here as Jay Campbell pointed out where writing a VB record had a valid RDW > but the BDW was zeros. Using qsam I would have no idea what the BDW was as > the system takes care > > of that. I am assuming if you use BSAM you decide the number of records > that make up a block and each record is proceeded by a RDW and the block > which you write has cumulative BDW. > > Am I on the right track ? > Yes, you are; BDW == sum(individual RDWs) + 4. > > Joe Reichman > -- "Worry was nothing more than paying interest on a loan that a man may never borrow" From: "Quest for the White Wind" by Alan Black Maranatha! <>< John McKown ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN