I seem to remember a discussion here about a PTF, trick or Compiler option that would allow the latest flavours of COBOL programs to tolerate short Variable Length files.
I mean the case where the FILE SECTION is RECORD VARYING FROM nnn TO mmm And your JCL is //DDNAME DD LRECL=qqq,RECFM=VB, . . . Now, it seems that qqq must equal mmm+4 or we get IGZ0201W A file attribute mismatch was detected. File DDNAME in program xxxxxxx had a record length of mmm+4 and the file specified in the ASSIGN clause had a record length of qqq. We would really like it to tolerate the case where qqq > mmm+4 I am sure I remember a discussion of this here and I think I remember some one suggesting a bypass, trick or fix, but numerous searchges have not turned it up. Am I deraming, or can any one remember or give me some sort of hint??? TIA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
