On Wed, 20 May 2020 at 14:38, Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com> wrote:
> Stated more clearly, when APPEND is specified, only the appended elements > of the array are written to the output stream. > A lot of the device drivers copy the input records to the output as a courtesy when the function performed isn't meant to produce output by processing the input records. I think you'd be less surprised by that behavior in a pipeline like this: PIPE cp query time | >> status logging a | cons I wouldn't be surprised if that idiom goes back to the days before multi-stream pipelines. These days you just do a FANOUT and have it the way you need. Rob
