Reading Block Spanned Record format (VBS) Data Sets

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Josef
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Reading Block Spanned Record format (VBS) Data Sets

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Hi there,
I found this post from 2009: viewtopic.php?f=1&t=864&p=2519&hilit=vbs#p2519 . This post discusses RECFM=VBS data set read processing as of 2009. At that time there was no support for processing RECFM=VBS data sets available to have RDWInputRecordStream to return the entire reconstructed record to the Java application.

Meanwhile more than 10 years passed by.
/ Are there better options available for reading the reconstructed RECFM=VBS record?
- If no, what are the recommendation for reading and reconstructing RECFM=VBS records.

We are planning to read DB2 UNLOAD data sets created in RECFM=VBS. Because the UNLOAD data set contains embedded Large Object (LOB) data the data set had to be created with RECFM=VBS.

Regards, Josef
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