In a recent note, Thomas Berg said: > Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 05:51:41 +0200 > > ====== Kirk Talman ====== wrote 2006-05-24 01:40: > > Call it a design issue. There is no flag in the VTOC that says if the > > file has data in it. > > Well, even an empty can has a bottom, so why can't a file ? > There's DS1LSTAR. But there was a design blunder. It _should_ have been the behavior ever since release 1 of OS/360 that any attempt to READ beyond DS1LSTAR should cause EODAD to be invoked. This test should have been incorporated in the access method, not left as the responsibility of the application programmer.
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