Good,

I was hoping that I wasn't missing something.  It does appear to be ignored for 
RECFM=U.

Thanks

Brian



On Thu, 6 Sep 2018 09:04:25 -0400, Steve Smith <sasd...@gmail.com> wrote:

>LRECL has no meaning for RECFM=U as far as the system goes.  It is recorded
>in the DSCB, but that is all. Anyway, only QSAM ever uses LRECL for any
>dataset.  So there's no good reason for specifying LRECL on a load
>library.  It can default to 0 just fine, because it's meaningless.
>
>As far as directory reading goes, the DCB would need to specify DSORG,
>RECFM, BLKSIZE overrides, and KEYLEN with BSAM; again LRECL is irrelevant.
>For QSAM it would be needed, but letting it default to the DSCB would be
>fatuous.
>
>
>sas
>
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