On Fri, 7 Jan 2022 06:25:06 -0800, Charles Mill wrote:

>Wait a minute! RECFM and JCL are different problems. You could write a 
>marvelous modern replacement for JCL but if you were going to deal with "3390" 
>(note the quotation marks) DASD you would need RECFM, LRECL and BLKSIZE (or, 
>if you prefer, RecFormat, RecLen and BlockSize). And JCL can be used to 
>reference zFS files, and then RECFM, etc. pretty much goes away, even if the 
>rest of JCL does not. 
>
Ir's more important to specify RECFM andd LRECL with PATH than with DSN.
The latter can often get the information from the label; no such for PATH.
And the added complexity of FILEDATA,  which defaults to BINARY.

-- gil

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