No ignorance there, Pat. If you wrote a program that only worked with a given blocksize, then short blocks becomes a problem. Even then, you still have to write the program to work with a short block because the last block may not be full.
My ignorance will now show. How do you get short blocks into an IPCS file? Christopher Y. Blaicher BMC Software, Inc. Austin Development Labs (512) 340-6154 BMC Software, Inc. makes no representations or promises regarding the reliability, completeness, or accuracy of the information provided in this discussion; all readers agree not to rely on this information or take any action against BMC Software in response to this information. -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Patrick O'Keefe Sent: Tuesday, February 28, 2006 3:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Finding "embedded" short blocks On Tue, 28 Feb 2006 15:23:17 -0600, Blaicher, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have to ask, WHY? > >Unless you really meant RECFM=FBS. > >No access method I know of cares about short blocks in the middle of the >file. They just deal with it. ... I'm probably way out of date, but I thought IPCS required no short blocks within the data. I assume there are still programs using BDAMish READ processing rather than QSAM GET processing - processing physical blocks rather than logical records. Those programs can certainly be written to handle short blocks, but it's up to the program. The access method won't do it. Have I shown my ignorance again? :-) Pat O'Keefe ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
