> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:49 AM > To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU > Subject: Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset >
[snip] > On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 09:34:19 -0600, McKown, John wrote: > > >2) Since the program does not know when it may terminate, it > is possible > >that the last OPEN would be just before the program is to terminate, > >thereby making the trace file have 0 records. > > > Have you a problem with that? What? Well, if I were expecting to see the last "n" records output, then I'd be pretty upset to get 0 when I knew that some were indeed output. > [snip] > This is identical to the behavior of FTP with the BINARY and ASCII > options respectively, and absent SITE RDW, both of which have their > uses. The wippo merely failed to perceive the need for an RDW option. > (is ASCII compatible with RDW?) > > -- gil Well, I consider it to be "weird". Personal opinion, I guess. The Dovetailed Technologies' "fromdsn" has an option to retain IBM compatable RDWs in the output, or not, as an option. Of course, that doesn't help if I want to output via JCL. So, somebody thought that keeping RDWs might be important. Of course, I don't know how that option would be architected in JCL. -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
