Does CA Librarian support for DSNTYPE=LARGE?

Products

• Librarian

Issue/Introduction

Tried creating and copying an existing Librarian dataset to a new dataset with DSNTYPE=LARGE :

//BACKUP DD DSN=LIBR.MASTER.PROD.BKUP, 
//     DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE),DSNTYPE=LARGE, 
//     DCB=(DSORG=PS,BLKSIZE=7548),
//     SPACE=(CYL,5000),UNIT=DASD, 
//     VOL=SER=VVVVVV

Job abended with S213-10 .

Does Librarian support DSNTYPE=LARGE Master files?

  

Environment

Release : 4.4

Component : CA Librarian

Resolution

DSNTYPE=LARGE is not allowed. 

 

Traditional master files can be direct access (DA), physical sequential (PS) or VSAM. 

CA Librarian uses the BDAM access method when accessing DA and PS master files and the VSAM access method to access VSAM master files.

        The BDAM access method does not support large format data sets

 

 

Wide Record Master files are partitioned data sets that use a PDS or PDS/E format.  

        PDS and PDSE type data sets cannot be allocated as large format data sets

 

Additional Information

See IBM Allocating Large Format Data Sets for more information