In <45d79eacefba9b428e3d400e924d36b903a24...@iwdubcormsg007.sci.local>, on 06/27/2010 at 03:00 PM, "Thompson, Steve" <steve_thomp...@stercomm.com> said:
>How difficult is it to get the number of directory blocks from a PDS >in a _____ program (where the blank can be filled in with COBOL, >PL/1, REXX, etc., but not HLASM/ASM) and then open the data set with >RECFM=U and then write an initial directory block followed by n empty >blocks? Very; you have to write the keys without update the key length in the DSCB1. There's also the issue of PDSE. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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