RDR and NETDATA have almost no other choice than looking at the first
record. I guess that RDR only doesn't do that for PRT type files: CP Q RDR
tells you,
Kris Buelens,
--- freelance z/VM consultant, Belgium ---
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2013/7/29 Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]>
> On 2013-07-29, at 07:51, Frank M. Ramaekers wrote:
>
> > Is there a more elegant way to determine if a spool file requires this
> processing, as opposed to what I'm doing which is running NETDATA command
> and if RC==0 then it's net data.
> >
> How does the NETDATA command itself make this determination?
> Is it by peeking at the first record to see whether it contains
> an INMR header?
>
> -- gil
>
