That should have been 32k lrecl ....sorry Sent from my iPad Scott Ford Senior Systems Engineer www.identityforge.com
On Jan 22, 2012, at 9:06 PM, Scott Ford <[email protected]> wrote: > Gil, > > I saw an IBM PowerPoint via google for z/os 1.7 indicating 32k leech for > sysin was new in 1.7 , so that would lead to believe it is , I would think an > IBMer has to step up and verify the actual > Maxmium. > > Sent from my iPad > Scott Ford > Senior Systems Engineer > www.identityforge.com > > > > On Jan 21, 2012, at 1:58 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I'm trying to find documention on limits on RECFM, LRECL, and BLKSIZE >> for SYSIN data sets and SYSOUT data assigned to INTRDR. I find some >> terse description in: >> >> Title: z/OS V1R13 DFSMS Using Data Sets >> Document Number: SC26-7410-11 >> >> 3.5.2 SYSIN Data Set >> >> Which states that the minimum LRECL for a SYSIN data set is 80. >> It gives no maximum. 32760? Perhaps an RCF is in order. If the >> information is not now available, which publication should supply >> it? >> >> But I get lost in control blocks. I shouldn't need to be a >> systems programmer to get the information I need. I find very >> little useful additional information in the JCL Reference, which >> mentions that LRECL is permitted on "DD *" statements, but >> gives no maximum. And experiment shows that while LRECL is >> syntactically allowed, it has little or no effect. >> >> At some point, max LRECL was probably 80, keypunch width. some time >> later it may have been 254 for JES3 (I tested it). In 1995, OW10527 >> attempted to relax this limit for JES2. It was such a failure that >> IBM chose to regress it with by OW16774. OA08145 (NF, 2003?) mentions >> "Support handling of SYSIN data with an LRECL>254", but gives no >> maximum. What publication would this appear in? Would there be an >> announcement letter? >> >> It seems there have been enough changes that the documents haven't >> kept up and now contradict each other. >> >> Thanks, >> gil >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
