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Physical Sequential Data sets that have Non-Standard Formats

Certain applications create non-standard physical sequential data sets. CA Disk bypasses these data sets and identifies the non-standard characteristic in messages 0435 and/or 3990. Typical non-standard characteristics look something like this:

• BLKSIZE is not a multiple of LRECL for a data set with RECFM=FB
• RECFM=F with UNEQUAL LRECL/BLKSIZE and BLKSIZE is not a multiple of LRECL

You cannot force CA Disk to process non-standard data sets with the exception of RECFM=F and BLKSIZE is a multiple of LRECL, but you can suppress these annoying messages from MSGPRINT. For details, see ARCNOSTDn in the Systems Guide.