In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 05/27/2005
at 09:32 AM, "Blaicher, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Looking for a clarification. Am I to understand that IEBGENER and
>such will read blocks after a short block in a RECFM=FBS file? By
>definition the short block should signal a logical EOF.
I'm not sure whether IBM guaranties an EOF for a short block in an FBS
data set, but they certainly state that it is an error and may lead to
incorrect results. Forget about EOF; consider a program that uses BSAM
to process such a data set with POINT, with a TTR calculation based on
the fixed block size. Or consider what happens to the RPS calculation
even if you have the correct TTR.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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