In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 08/22/2006
at 02:22 PM, Thomas David Rivers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>I want to open a sequential (non-PDS/PDSE, non-HFS) fixed block file
>for output, POINT to a particular TTR and write a record without
>truncating the file.
You can only do that with UPDAT.
>Opening the file for UPDAT would seem like a reasonable thing to do,
>but I may be extending the file, or altering blocks/records
>in-the-middle.
You can rewrite a block in the middle; you can't replace it with a
block of a different size. Perhaps you should be looking at a KSDS or
RRDS.
What are you trying to accomplish by rewriting the block? Perhaps
there is a better approach.
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