If memory serves, OPEN (HPPCTL,UPDAT) should be coded as OPEN (HPPCTL,'UPDAT') - with quotes around UPDAT (or INPUT or OUTPUT).
On 08/04/2017 00:28, Sam Siegel wrote: > OPEN for UPDAT might require the GET LOCATE instead of GET MOVE. > > Try OPEN for INPUT and see if work area is populated. > > On Fri, Apr 7, 2017 at 4:09 PM, Tony Thigpen <t...@vse2pdf.com> wrote: >> I am helping on an assembler program that is accessing a sequential file in >> move mode, yet the move is not happening. R1 points to valid data after the >> GET, but the record area specified was not filled in. This application is >> being ported from VSE to z/OS. >> >> Code snippets: >> >> OPEN (HPPCTL,UPDAT) >> GET HPPCTL,PPCT >> HPPCTL DCB DSORG=PS,RECFM=F,LRECL=100,DDNAME=HPPCTL, >> BLKSIZE=(100), >> MACRF=(GM),EODAD=PPCTLOUT >> >> in program storage: >> PPCT DS 0CL100 CONTROL RECORD >> PPID DS CL5 RECORD IDENT >> ... and more >> >> >> Thoughts? >> >> (My expertise is in VSE, not z/OS application programming.) >> >> -- >> Tony Thigpen >> >> ---------------------------------------------------------------------- >> For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, >> send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > . > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
