On Tue, 13 Dec 2022 08:31:55 +0000, Ian Worthington wrote: >Your suspicions were quite correct. After some futzing around the opening >logic finally does: > > if ((pcapfd = fopen("DD:PCAPFN", "ab+,lrecl=1")) == NULL) { > >which looks like it must takes precedence over the OTRUNC. > Interesting. I can no longer find in either the JCL Ref. or Using Data Sets statements to the effect that:
o Job step initiation opens the file with the options on the DD statement. o It is then the responsibility of the application program to re-open the file with the *same*options*. - less O_EXCL, which would cause the second open() to fail. - presumably fetching the opeions with DYNALLOC INFO? - I assume the "application program" usually means the OPEN macro invoked by the access method. An example in the doc would be valuable. Does an open( , O_TRUNC ) not actually truncate the file, but defer the action, to be performed by an implied seek() at the first write()? (Does a DD allocation OTRUNC in an IEFBR14 step not truncate the file at the initial open()?) A Service Request to the maintainer of the code (yourself?) might be appropriate. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN