I prefer VB255 for ease of editing - especially with modern 3270 emulators that support big-x-big geometry.
I'm shooting from the hip here as I don't have access to a machine at the moment, but I've only ever been bitten by the "RECFM=VB plus ISPF editor" combo once. In the mid 1990's I created a RECFM VB data file with Rexx, then edited it with ISPF editor and found to my astonishment that if a record was exactly 8 bytes long it was saved with a blank appended - making it 9 bytes long! Not good for a data file! (that particular data file anyway). Not sure if that "feature" is still lurking - I vaguely recall it had something to do with not upsetting the PL/I or COBOL compiler which sometimes expected sequence numbers in cols 1 to 8. Cheers, Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
