Mainframe, MVS and zOS Discussion

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This is another reason you REALLY need to talk to your site support group.  If the DATACLASS given does not support VSAM extended format (a DATACLASS can be used for different reasons), then yes the 4 GB limit still applies.  Only someone working at your site can provide you with the site-specific ...

Sorry for the confusion enrico. Reading it again and yes, it indeed is wrong.

I have suggested to use the Extended Format (VSAM EF) files. As I read about them, they allow to add an extra 32 control bytes to each data block. But they need to be DFSMS managed. It seems to solve the problem. So even if a DATACLASS is also given the restriction of 4GB anyways remains, right?

What does TSO stand for?

Take System Over
Terrible System Overhead
Time Sucking Option

Unless i missed the obvious: This should help - ISPF option 3.4, bring up the PDS on a selection list, enter PX beside the PDS. This prints the member names and line counts along with total lines. In the command line type LIST. Choose option 3 (keep and continue with new). A data set of name &P...

with a bit of lateral thinking ... YES just run a SRCHFOR with a string that YOU KNOW does not exist the summary will tell how many members searched and how many lines searched ********************************* Top of Data ********************************** ISRSUPC - MVS/PDF FILE/LINE/WORD/BYTE/SFO...

But DATCLASS is part of SMS setup?

Pandora-Box wrote:Also what you could do is create a REXX script to display the number of lines MEMBER wise

Thanks but I am not very comfortable with REXX.

The forum has been changed a lot since inception. It looks great. It looked great.

Hello,

Does anyone know a way to come around the 4 GB limitation while defining a LINEAR cluster? Note these volumes are not managed my SMS.

Thanks for any help!

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Thanks!

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