XEDIT is known to strip trailing blanks for RECFM V files, so that 0 isn't
a surprise.  (I never checked what.it did with BFS files)

Kris Buelens,
     --- VM/VSE consultant, Belgium ---
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Op wo 9 sep. 2020 om 06:22 schreef Alan Altmark <alan_altm...@us.ibm.com>:

> On Tuesday, 09/08/2020 at 09:27 GMT, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com>
>
> wrote:
> > Can any CMS file other than a BFS file have a zero-legth
> > record?
>
> No, though XEDIT will report a line (QUERY LENGTH) as zero length if it is
> all blank (on a RECFM V file).  In reality, it has a record length of 1.
>
> Alan Altmark
>
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