Did you try reading in each case? I believe that you will find that the results differ.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu> on behalf of Frank Swarbrick <frank.swarbr...@outlook.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 3:12 PM To: IBM-MAIN@listserv.ua.edu Subject: Re: empty KSDS behavior - why? Test 1 - both DVFJS.DUMMY1 and DVFJS.DUMMY2 are "un-initialized" (HI-U-RBA is 0): REPRO IDS(DVFJS.DUMMY1) ODS(DVFJS.DUMMY2) IDC3300I ERROR OPENING DVFJS.DUMMY1 IDC3351I ** VSAM OPEN RETURN CODE IS 160 IDC0005I NUMBER OF RECORDS PROCESSED WAS 0 IDC3003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12 Test 2 - after adding a record to DVFJS.DUMMY1, and then deleting the record (HI-U-RBA is now 829440): REPRO IDS(DVFJS.DUMMY1) ODS(DVFJS.DUMMY2) IDC0005I NUMBER OF RECORDS PROCESSED WAS 0 IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0 In this latter case DVFJS.DUMMY2 remains "un-initialized" (HI-U-RBA is still 0). ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU> on behalf of Paul Gilmartin <0000000433f07816-dmarc-requ...@listserv.ua.edu> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 12:25 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: empty KSDS behavior - why? On Tue, 29 May 2018 18:12:16 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >Why would IBM have to add a key? What is necessary is to create an empty KSDS >that can be read; add and delete is one way to do it, and doesn't leave a key >behind. I'd prefer that they just initialized it to have the same contents as >adding and deleting. > Is the result identical whether the added/deleted record has key high-values, low-values, or something in between? And I'll repeat my question, what is the result of REPROing a properly initialized but currently empty KSDS? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
