On Mon, 1 Aug 2011 16:19:26 +0100 CM Poncelet <[email protected]> wrote:
:>Probably ... because my definition includes that the overriding DCB must :>then also be able to read successfully the dataset whose DCB attributes :>have been overridden - regardless of BDW, RDWs and data. Otherwise the :>'standard' definition of "DCB override" is purely academic and of no :>practical use. This 'standard' definition appears to mean that, :>regardless of its attributes being consistent or not with those of the :>dataset being read, the DCB which is opened first overrides the physical :>dataset's DCB attributes (and if the dataset cannot then be read, that :>is irrelevant). As I said earlier, 'DCB' includes 'DSCB' within the :>context of my argument: I refer to them all as DCBs for the sake of :>expediency. Then what you want is to write a subsystem which will map the specified DCB to the physical file. That if the DCB shows VB,255 and the data is FB,80 the subsystem will convert the data for you. Not sure what you would expect if the DCB show FB,80 and the actual data is FB,90 - return partial records? But the basic point - you have your own private definition of these terms. It is if you are speaking a different language. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
