In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 07/05/2006
at 02:44 PM, Ed Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>At some time in previous history (pre MVS?) QSAM did allow for short
> blocks at anyplace in the dataset (including the last block). UNLESS
> it was created with FBS as the recfm=. I *think* that with SAMe it
>became standard practice for all blocks (except the last one) to be
>"full" (ie the blocksize of the dataset). I believe that today
>blocks are written so that the are "filled up" (ie FBS). VBS is
>another animal entirely.
AFAIK there has been no change in the way QSAM enerates short blocks
with FB. The occur when:
1. You close the file with a partially billed buffer.
2. You issue a TRUNC.
Note that in the first case, if you subsequently open the file with
MOD, QSAM will not read and rewrite the short block; it starts a new
block over the EOF.
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