Re: determining a tape's blocksize on a *NL tape

[Don <dr2@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Uh, Blocksize of ZERO?  I don't have any of the old tapes in front of me
to play with here....and I don't bring any tape DEBE's with me to clients,
but Blocksize of ZERO?  You sure of that?

What happened to the backup for the source to the proc?

Suggest a DMPTAP DEV(TAP99) TYPE(*ALL) DTABLK(1 10) and see if you can
find what you're looking for there...

Don in DC

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On Thu, 2 May 2002, Prowak, Dave wrote:

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> Hi,
>
> Here's the short story - A procedure to load recs from a tape went down
> recently.
> The provider of the tape (mainframe) changed the blocksize from 128 to 0.
> With a blocksize of 0,
> the program determines the optimum blocksize given a rcdlen of 128.
>
> It's a no-label tape.  How do I determine the blocksize used?
>
> Dave
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