On Tue, 8 Sep 2020 at 21:17, Lionel Dyck <lbd...@gmail.com> wrote: > 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. >
Yes, that's why it says the null record is written after each member, rather than between members. It makes many multi-stream pipelines simpler this way. There are a few pipeline stages that will discard the null records, including some device drivers. The popular idiom to drop them deliberately is a LOCATE stage without any arguments. If MEMBERS were designed 40 years later, it probably would only have taken the member names from an input stream, so the consumption of the input record indicates when the selected member has been completely written to the output stream. > 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. > I've heard that hope before... Rob
