On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 7:56 AM, Dazzo, Matt <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a question pertaining to DCB info when doing 'REPRO (IDCAMS) to > unload it to a flat file'. John specified '(vb/9160/27998)' how is this > determined? tks Matt > > Your LISTCAT showed a MAXLRECL or 9156. With RECFM=VB, there are 4 bytes of overhead, so LRECL=9160==9156+4. The 27998 is 1/2 track blocking on a 3390. What I do is let SMS calculate the optimal block size by using DCB=(RECFM=?,LRECL=?,BLKSIZE=0)
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