On Mon, 20 Mar 2017 16:07:18 -0500, Bill Woodger wrote: >Simple, John. You produce the message Paul wants. Can't be clearer. > Block sequence, offset, segment sequence, record sequence, cause. Note that segment sequence and record sequence may be indeterminate if the VBS is broken badly enough.
Cause can be any of: o garbage bits in lower half of SDW o SDW count exceeds remainder of block o Initial segment followed by another initial segment o Continuation segment preceded by end segment o ... Tell the programmer exactly what's wrong and how to find it in a dump. The program knows what's wrong when it discovers the flaw. Why leave it to the programmer to guess or repeat the analysis. >Was the data set written with LRECL=X, to get "long" records? What is the >data? Why is it VBS? > IIRC, he said LRECL=32760. SMF. Why isn't LRECL=32767 allowed for RECFM=VBS? A 32767-byte record might span blocks that don't exceed 32760. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
