Indicates the physical I/O transfer size for the file. It takes the following form: BLOCKSIZE = bks bks Is a numeric expression whose value specifies a number of bytes. For magnetic tape files, the value of "bks" specifies the physical record size in the range 18 to 32767 bytes. The default value is 2048 bytes. For sequential disk files, "bks" is rounded up to an integral number of 512-byte blocks and used to specify multiblock transfers. The number of blocks transferred can be 1 to 127; it is determined by RMS defaults. For indexed and relative files, "bks" is rounded up to an integral number of 512-byte blocks and used to specify the RMS bucket size. This must fall in the range 1 to 63 blocks. The default is the smallest value capable of holding a single record.