He was agreeing that DASD block sizes up to 32K but that in most case anything over half a track would waste space.
Of course, with custom CCWs you can write full track, but I wouldn't expect BSAM or QSAM to be happy. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Paul Gilmartin [[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, October 25, 2022 12:46 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: TSO XMIT BLKSIZE On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:20:03 -0500, Paul Gorlinsky wrote: >You're correct, I mangled a best practice with functional capability. > Too terse. Pleas provide an attribution: Who is the "You" in "You're correct"? And/or some context: What are they correct about? That might make the distinction between "best practice" and "functional capability" self-evident. -- Thanks, gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
