Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. wrote: >>There is no such thing as a fake residual count, > > > What would you call a value calculated from the BLKSIZE and the count > area and plugged into the CSW field of an IOB? That sure sounds like a > fake residual length to me.
For example, with variable-length records the residual count in the IOB for BSAM/BPAM is DCBBLKSI minus the length in the BDW, even if the BDW length indicator is zapped to be smaller than the actual length of the block. I was going to report whenever the BDW indicated the wrong length when compared to the length ascertained from the residual count in a program once, but then found out that such an inconsistency was not really possible. Cheers, Greg P. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
