<<
      !FILE OUTPUT=COMMQRYP,NEW;SAVE;DEV=DISC;&
      !REC=-59,255,F,ASCII;DISC=250000,8,1;CCTL
      !RUN COMMQRY.LOAD
      !FILE COMMQRY;DEV=LZ3,1;ENV=B1SL.HPENV.SYS
      !FCOPY FROM=COMMQRY;TO=*COMMQRYP;CCTL>>

A few comments, posted publicly so that someone can correct my information:

Your file equation and the TO=* do not match.

I assume the -59 is based on a report length of 58 plus one byte for the
carriage control.

My understanding is that the blocking factor (,255) is ignored on MPE/iX
and is useful only if the file will be copied to a Classic machine

I also understand that extents specification (,8,1) is mostly ignored on
MPE/iX. Only 32,32 will have any effect, and then not literally so. MPE/iX
interprets this as "fully allocate the file, but not necessarily with 32
exentents.

On your FCOPY statement, since the TO device is spooled, CCTL is the
default. You may want it for documentation

There is one other issue to consider (not in your case, I believe). COBOL
output will normally put a pre-space command in the disk file. (Perhaps
that will be overidden if the code has BEFORE ADVANCING.) QUIZ will not.
Where I formerly worked, in order to have the first heading line appear at
the top of the page and not at the bottom of the preceding page, we had to
create the disk file with 'C' and 'A' in the first two records and then
append the report to that file. It's been a while, and I forget which of
these characters represents prespacing. I found it by reading COBOL and
QUIZ spoolfiles with FCOPY. Later, I found confirmation of this in an
article in the first Robelle SMUG book.

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