> Writing is harder. As I recall, define a DD with DD * and then write to it.
Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:ibm-m...@bama.ua.edu] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Sunday, March 21, 2010 2:40 PM To: IBM-MAIN@bama.ua.edu Subject: Re: Creating an I/O error On Sun, 21 Mar 2010 21:23:56 +0000, Gainsford, Allen wrote: >Possibly silly question, but I need to test a SYNAD routine, and I can't think of any way to actually produce an I/O error upon command. Can anyone point out any solutions? > Create a Unix file with lines longer than LRECL; allocate it with FILEDATA=TEXT and read it. With practically any Classic data set, allocate it with overriding BLKSIZE < size of an actual block; read it. Writing is harder. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
