AFAIK standard VSAM limit is 4GB (or 4GiB for purists).
You're right.
Having been out of direct involvement for awhile.
After being downsized and then moving to an outsourcer's customer, I forgot.
IBM did the no-brainer of using all the bits in a word to double the maximum size of a non-EF VSAM file 'overnight'.
This changed it from 2 to 4 GB by using all 32 bits.
I forget when they did it.
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