Gerhard or others, Looking for a clarification. Am I to understand that IEBGENER and such will read blocks after a short block in a RECFM=FBS file? By definition the short block should signal a logical EOF.
Chris Blaicher -----Original Message----- From: Gerhard [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, May 26, 2005 10:09 PM To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Reading a PDS --- Bill Fairchild wrote: It is possible to have block lengths like the following in a PDS member containing FB data with blocksize 800 and LRECL 80: 800, 800, 720, 800, 800, 80, EOF. You would not find such a case in an file or PDS member with RECFM=FBS. --- end of quote --- Unfortunately that isn't correct. It's physically possible to create a sequential FBS data set with a short block, and later on add more data with DISP=MOD, making the data set unreadable. None of the systems I've worked tested for this or failed it. Gerhard Postpischil Bradford, VT ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
