What is the meaning of the following declaration :
DCB=BLKSIZE=,
What is the difference between above declaration & not
specifying DCB at all for a output file?



What is the meaning of the following declaration : DCB=BLKSIZE=, What is the difference between a..

Answer / gaurav

it specifies the block size. If not specified, system will
automatically assign the block size for the data

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