Try FBA and BLKSIZE=0
-------------------------------------------------------------------------- This email message and any accompanying materials may contain proprietary, privileged and confidential information of CIT Group Inc. or its subsidiaries or affiliates (collectively, "CIT"), and are intended solely for the recipient(s) named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this communication, any use, disclosure, printing, copying or distribution, or reliance on the contents, of this communication is strictly prohibited. CIT disclaims any liability for the review, retransmission, dissemination or other use of, or the taking of any action in reliance upon, this communication by persons other than the intended recipient(s). If you have received this communication in error, please reply to the sender advising of the error in transmission, and immediately delete and destroy the communication and any accompanying materials. To the extent permitted by applicable law, CIT and others may inspect, review, monitor, analyze, copy, record and retain any communications sen! t from or received at this email address. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John Norgauer Sent: Friday, May 04, 2012 4:44 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Old timer question We have a dataset that is as follows: Management class . . :,**None**, ,,Allocated cylinders :,114 Storage class . . . :,**None**, ,,Allocated extents . :,4 ,Volume serial . . . :,SGP103, , ,,, , ,Device type . . . . :,3390 , ,, , Data class . . . . . :,**None**, ,, , ,Organization . . . :,PS , ,Current Utilization, ,Record format . . . :,FA , ,,Used cylinders . . :,80 ,Record length . . . :,133 , ,,Used extents . . . :,1 ,Block size . . . . :,133 , ,,, , ,1st extent cylinders:,90 ,,, , ,Secondary cylinders :,8 ,,Dates, ,Data set name type :, , ,,Creation date . . . :,1996/08/01 ,SMS Compressible. . :,NO , ,,Referenced date . . :,2012/05/04 Truly an ugly dataset... 133 by 133 and FA recform created in the 1996. I wanted to re-block the dataset for obvious reasons. I thought that 13300 blksize would work but DFP did not like that size. it said " Record length is inconsistent with block size for this record format" What would be a good blksize? John Norgauer Senior Systems Programmer Mainframe Technical Support Services University of California Davis Medical Center 2315 Stockton Blvd ASB 1300 Sacramento, Ca 95817 916-734-0536 SYSTEMS PROGRAMMING...... Guilty, until proven innocent !! " JN 2004 ........ "Hardware eventually breaks - Software eventually works" anon ........ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
