Wow. I never thought of that. It always worked for me, but I guess I was just lucky. Not that I expect this situation to be all that common, but nothing beats personal experience for seeing that it really is a problem.
Thanks, Shimon On 4 Nov 2006 at 22:44, Dale Smith wrote: > Most CMS MODULEs are variable length instead of fixed length. Since > XEDIT > strips trailing blanks from variable length records when the file is > saved > or filed, it can cause future executions of the MODULE to fail if > some of > those trailing blanks were used by the MODULE. This can happen if > the > last item defined in the program contains trailing blanks. This > could be > an explicity defined item or generated by the Assembler, (literal > pool). > This happened to me one time and it took a while to figure out what > the > problem was! :-)> That's why it's safer to change it with PIPEs, > it > doesn't remove trailing blanks from a record unless you tell it > too. > > Dale R. Smith > Technology Services Senior > IBM Global Services > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > 1-614-481-1608 > > On Sat, 4 Nov 2006 21:07:50 +0200, Shimon Lebowitz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > >Interesting that you used pipes. > >I have made changes like this several times over the years, > >including before I had pipes, and I always used XEDIT. > >Isn't that easier than writing a pipe? > > > >/ERR Duplicate > >CL /ERR Duplicate > >COV ERR [IN-USE] > >FILE > > > >Shimon
