Hi, I had an "interesting" conversation today. Apparently some of the libraries shipped by some vendors or at least the directions to define them specify RECFM=U,LRECL=256. I had never considered LRECL as an valid option when defining a load library and so always coded RECFM=U,LRECL=0.
Is there any advantage to LRECL=256 that I am missing? I'm used to seeing load library block sizes in various values, but LRECL I had thought was always a constant. I looked it up in the IBM manual and the best I can see is that it says that LRECL=0 is "only valid for RECFM=U datasets". Which doesn't tell me very much or answer the question. I know that LRECL=256 works, apparently SoftwareAG has shipped their load libraries as RECFM=U,LRECL=256,BLKSIZE=6144 for more years than I have been a systems programmer, but I can't find anywhere where there seem to be any "rules". Anyone have a answer for this? Is it possible that for RECFM=U that LRECL is plain old "ignored:? Brian ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
