On Fri, 2014-07-18 at 07:38 -0500, Bill Godfrey wrote: > The block size field is not set to the current block's length for BSAM > READ either. For BSAM READ, the length is determined after a CHECK or > WAIT by subtracting the residual count from the length used by READ, > as described in Using Data Sets: > > http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/DGT2D4A0/3.6.7 > Subtract this residual count from the number of data bytes requested to be > read by the READ macro.
Huh. Have I been doing this wrong? I've got some *old* (DSORG=PO) code that, after READ/CHECK, follows DECB->IOB and uses the residual count at IOBCSW+5. (Not my invention. I'm sure I lifted that code from someone else, probably Dave Phillips, back in the day.) -- David Andrews A. Duda & Sons, Inc. david.andr...@duda.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
