On Sun, 7 Jul 2013 18:00:24 -0400, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: >In <3877421865811083.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on >07/07/2013 > >>Particularly needed for nested COPY statements. > >I suspect that it reads the entire member before processing it. > It apparently does so for MACROs, but I have evidence both from tracing the HLASM user I/O exits and from a recurrent regression when using a UNIX directory in the SYSLIB concatenation that at COPY it NOTEs the current position; FINDs the COPY member; reads it, and POINTs back to the former position.
Apparently this works alike for PDS and PDSE. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
