On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 09:09:22 -0400, John Eells <[email protected]> wrote:
>Ted MacNEIL wrote: >>> I'm not an SMS guy, but I believe that any data set managed by SMS will get >>> created with implicit EOF. >> >> Unless things have changed, yes. > >Things have changed (smile). Now it's not only for SMS-managed data sets: > >In z/OS V1.11, DFSMSdfp processing is changed to indicate end-of-file >(EOF) during the allocation of data sets on DASD that are not >SMS-managed and have either sequential or an undefined data set >organization. This makes this processing for both SMS-managed and >non-SMS-managed data sets consistent, to make it unnecessary to open >data sets solely to indicate EOF, and to help prevent programs from >reading old data when a data set is read immediately after being allocated. > >-- Thanks John! I was going to post something about that but couldn't remember if it was z/OS 1.12 or z/OS 1.13 and was checking announcements and a couple of your "what's new" SHARE sessions. No wonder I couldn't find it since it was z/OS 1.11. Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
