On Apr 2, 2008, at 15:21, SPITZ, HOBART CTR DFAS wrote:
It's been a long day. Does this look right? If so why?
No, but it's likely WAD. CMS is historically hostile to empty files; even more to empty records, and will do anything it can to frustrate the programmer who attempts to employ them. I suppose the rationale is that in the absence of any record to establish the record length it reports a default value. I remember a similar problem when I once FILEDEFed a file as V 137. Later, when I re-opened the file for append (MOD), it loaded in the DCB not my specified 137, but the length of the longest record previously written. Ugh.
Ready; T=0.01/0.01 17:15:57 pipe hole | > test data . f 10 allowempty Ready; T=0.01/0.01 17:16:49 l test data * (iso FILENAME FILETYPE FM FORMAT LRECL RECS BLOCKS DATE TIME TEST DATA O1 F 80 0 0 2008-04-02 17:16:49 Ready; T=0.01/0.01 17:17:21
What happens if you initialize by writing a 10-byte record, then overwrite with an empty file? --gil
