In <[email protected]>, on 02/07/2012
   at 10:01 AM, Dana Mitchell <[email protected]> said:

>That leads to a question that I've been thinking about for some time. 
>Since the 3390 geometry is emulated by modern storage control units, 
>why then are the inefficiencies of small blocks emulated also? 

Compatibility with existing software. What we need is FBA support in
MVS, but IBM doesn't believe that there is a business case, or at
least that's what they keep telling us.
 
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