>Which is a silly convention, because there may be some benefit and never any >harm in writing an EOF at the beginning of a newly allocated data set.
Better safe than sorry. IBM is attempting to not break things. I don't believe it's safe to put an EOF into: PDS/PDSE Some linear datasets zFS/HFS BDAM (Of course, I could be wrong) - Too busy driving to stop for gas! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
