Relation in spanned records and control interval split?

[Sushant S]

Is there any relation in spanned records and control interval split?

[Robert Sample]

What kind of relationship do you think exists? A spanned record is where the record length is longer than the CI size. A CI split occurs when there is a KSDS record to be inserted but there is no space in the CI for the record.

[Sushant S]

Thanks Robert, I was thinking as if the spanned records are like fixed-block or variable-block concept or they come in to the picture only whrn CI split happens.

[William Collins]

You will only get spanned records when, as Robert has said, you record-length is larger than the CI size. This will require more than one CI to contain the data,.

CI splits are a different thing, nothing to do with spanned records.

I've never even considered using spanned records for VSAM, not come across anything that uses it.

What are you trying to do?

[Robert Sample]

As William said, spanned records really have nothing to do with splits. A spanned record can be fixed or variable length in VSAM.