That’s what I’m trying I.E overlapped i/o

BSAM
> On Mar 7, 2021, at 12:40 PM, Clark Morris <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
> [Default] On 7 Mar 2021 07:57:02 -0800, in bit.listserv.ibm-main
> [email protected] (Joseph Reichman) wrote:
> 
>> If you read a larger number of bytes into core let’s say above the bar less 
>> I/o should speed things up no ?
>> 
> If you have a large enough number of buffers, the difference should be
> negligible.  For QSAM I hope they would be above the line taking
> advantage of the 31 bit address space.  HavingBSA oddball data sets which
> require special handling and maybe even EXCP will probably cost more
> time than you save.  Playing with BUFNO and NCP are a better
> expenditure of time and effort.
> 
> Clark Morris
>> 
>>>> On Mar 7, 2021, at 10:40 AM, Radoslaw Skorupka <[email protected]> 
>>>> wrote:
>>> 
>>> ?W dniu 06.03.2021 o 16:50, Laddie Hanus pisze:
>>>> LBI is available on DASD the largest block that will fit on 1 track, on 
>>>> the 3390 thats about 56K. Logical record (LRECL) is still limited to 
>>>> 32760, This is for new datasets being written. Existing datasets will read 
>>>> one block per i/o and will be no larger than what written. this is for 
>>>> BSAM read/check. manual DF/DSS Advanced services under the DEVTYPE macro 
>>>> will has a table of largest blocksize per decice type
>>> 
>>> The problem is I have never seen LBI block on DASD.
>>> Can I allocate such dataset using ISPF 3.2 or JCL DD ?
>>> Can I copy existing LBI dataset using IEBGENER or IDCAMS?
>>> 
>>> It's more or less like long member names in PDSE. They exist, however I 
>>> haven't found any.
>>> And I think it is not only my observation.
>>> 
>>> From the other hand large blocks on tape are widely used and supported by 
>>> existing system tools.
>>> 
>>> Last, but not least: author of the thread wants better performance. I would 
>>> not expect significant performance improvement by changing BLKSIZE =half 
>>> track to whole track.
>>> 
>>> -- 
>>> Radoslaw Skorupka
>>> (looking for new job)
>>> Lodz, Poland
>>> 
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