On Wed, 3 Oct 2012 23:09:01 -0500, Mike Schwab wrote: >Yep. The MVS 380 project ran into that. Empty lines were stored as 1 >blank and could not remove without an error. > Was this because of endemic BCTR; EX MVC processing? Of course, writing with BSAM you can control the RDWs; they aren't checked. So what happens if you use BSAM to create some records with RDW count=4, then read them with QSAM?
o Detected error? or o Buffer overrun with possible premature program termination or escalation of privileges? z/OS is better now. Or was. >On Wed, Oct 3, 2012 at 4:34 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >> >> Sigh. Morons. Why did they do that!? It's like being back in old OS/360 >> which specified the minimum count field in an RDW as 5. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN