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SMF records created by IBM components never exceed 32,756 bytes. If the data required in a record would cause the record to exceed that length, the component responsible for creating the record would, instead, create multiple (continuation) records, none of which would exceed 32,756 bytes.(See "Record Type 30 (1E) -- Common Address Space Work" in item TYPE30-CSA-WORK for an example.) SMF records are written as spanned (VBS) in order to conserve storage space by ensuring that each block of data is as full as possible. If you specify DCB parameters on any of the input or output DD statements for IFASMFDL, you must specify RECFM=VBS. You should not specify LRECL=X for reading or writing SMF dump data, because LRECL=X signifies that a single record may be larger than 32,756 bytes, which is not the case for SMF data.
You can specify LRECL=32760 instead of 32767. You can also specify any block size from 4096 to the maximum allowed for the chosen device.
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