Thank you all - RTFM does help doesn't it. I didn't expect it when reading only a single member however I have coded around it so all is good.
Someday before I retire, or pass on, I hope to see PIPES integrated with z/OS REXX so that it is pervasive across the z/OS ecosystem. Lionel B. Dyck <sdg>< Website: https://www.lbdsoftware.com "Worry more about your character than your reputation. Character is what you are, reputation merely what others think you are." - John Wooden -----Original Message----- From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List <CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU> On Behalf Of Alan Altmark Sent: Tuesday, September 8, 2020 1:57 PM To: CMS-PIPELINES@VM.MARIST.EDU Subject: Re: [CMS-PIPELINES] PIPE MEMBERS Anomaly ??? On Tuesday, 09/08/2020 at 06:50 GMT, "John P. Hartmann" <jphartm...@gmail.com> wrote: > May I politely suggest you consult the documentation? By which you mean that a null record is written after each member, something useful to delimit the members since you can ask for more than one member. (And a F80 file can't have a zero-length record, so that works out ok.) Alan Altmark Senior Managing z/VM and Linux Consultant IBM Systems Lab Services IBM Z Delivery Practice ibm.com/systems/services/labservices office: 607.429.3323 mobile; 607.321.7556 alan_altm...@us.ibm.com IBM Endicott