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.
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