What is the max blocksize for a Tape file?

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What is the max blocksize for a Tape file?..

Answer / guest

It is 32,760.Based on that we can calculate efficient number
of Records in a Block

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What is the max blocksize for a Tape file?..

Answer / sunitha

The number of bytes that we specify for the block size
depends on the device type and the record format of the
dataset. The maximum is 3270 bytes for DASD datesets and
2,147,483,648 bytes (2097152KB or 2048MB or 2GB) for tape.

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