With RECFM=U there is 1 record per block and the BDW is RDW + 4 ? Joe Reichman Joe Reichman IT Specialist Master Files Division New Carrollton Federal Building, B7-182 OS:CTO:AD:CP:I:IB Flex M,T,Th,F Home office (240) 863 - 3965 Office (240) 613-4350 Cell (917) 748-9693 TOD M - F 7:30 am - 4:00 pm
-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 10:57 AM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: Bsam VS Qsam for VB records On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 9:54 AM, Pew, Curtis G <curtis....@austin.utexas.edu > wrote: > On Jul 19, 2016, at 9:39 AM, Reichman Joseph <joseph.reich...@irs.gov> > wrote: > > > > I am not thinking of moving this in production it may help me track > > down > a problem > > If your motivation is to examine the physical blocks, why not read > with QSAM specifying RECFM=U? > That is what I do, with: RECFM=U,LRECL=32756,BLKSIZE=32760 and then use QSAM and "have fun". Or not, as the case may be. > > -- > Pew, Curtis G > curtis....@austin.utexas.edu > ITS Systems/Core/Administrative Services > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send > email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- "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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
