In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 12/15/2005
at 08:05 AM, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>M&C expands on this. So, I'll echo Johnny Luo's perplexity
>concerning this requirement, which the three of us apparently
>perceive as frivolous.
Probably more. Have you submitted a requirement on this? If I write an
ISPF application that writes a file that might be empty, I'll be
forced to include special case logic for empty input.
>Would it work to LMCOPY from an empty data set?
Don't know. I would guess yes, but then I also guessed that the LMPUT
wasn't really required.
>... are you saying Barry is mistaken?
Yes, I believe that you can do a STOW immediately after the OPEN. I
don't have a system to try it on.
--
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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