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Your message is being returned to you unprocessed because it looks like a LISTSERV command, rather than material intended for distribution to the members of the IBM-MAIN list. Please note that LISTSERV commands must always be sent to the LISTSERV address. If it was indeed a command you were attempting to issue, then send it again to lists...@listserv.ua.edu for execution. Otherwise, please accept our apologies and try to rewrite the message with a slightly different wording - for instance, change the first word of the message, enclose it in quotation marks, insert a line of dashes at the beginning of your message, etc. THIS-IS-SLASH-SLASH EXEC SAS THIS-IS-SLASH-SLASH DATAFILE DD DSN=WHATEVER,DISP=SHR THIS-IS-SLASH-SLASH SYSIN DD * DATA _NULL_; INFILE DATAFILE RECFM=U BLKSIZE=32760; INPUT; LIST; IF _N_ GT 10 THEN STOP; will print a nice hex dump of each of the first 10 block. Barry Merrilly yours, Herbert W. Barry Merrill, PhD President-Programmer Merrill Consultants MXG Software 10717 Cromwell Drive technical questions: supp...@mxg.com Dallas, TX 75229 http://www.mxg.com admin questions: ad...@mxg.com tel: 214 351 1966 fax: 214 350 3694 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of John McKown Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2016 10:33 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Bsam VS Qsam for VB records On Tue, Jul 19, 2016 at 10:15 AM, Reichman Joseph <joseph.reich...@irs.gov> wrote: > With RECFM=U there is 1 record per block and the BDW is RDW + 4 ? > Technically speaking, with RECFM=U there is not a BDW. There is just a bunch of bytes with no access method imposed interpretation. You must determine the number of bytes actually read by taking the number of bytes you requested to be read (the BLKSIZE basically) and subtract the CCW residual count to determine the number of bytes actually read. Luckily, IBM supplies an example. ref: http://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/en/SSLTBW_2.2.0/com.ibm.zos.v2r2.idad400/len99.htm > > 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 > -- "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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
