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RTA4BYTE: Specify the Type of Extent Area Used

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RTA4BYTE=YES
Specifies that the extents area contains pairs of addresses in the format RTA RTA+1, where RTA is the four byte relative address of the first track of the extent, and RTA+1 is the four byte relative address of the last track of the extent plus 1.

You must use the macro ICVEDT02 to map the extent area if you specify RTA4BYTE=YES. See Table 1 for a description.

RTA4BYTE=YES is a required parameter for an nonindexed VTOC, and optional for an indexed VTOC.

RTA4BYTE=NO
Specifies that the extents area is in the format XXYYZ where:

If you do not specify the RTA4BYTE parameter, the default is RTA4BYTE=NO.

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