Hi Bill, In respect of:
"Now, although it isn't common, COBOL can use ESDS (rather than QSAM) for "sequential files". I checked the DFSMS manuals and got a BIT confused. It talked about SPANNED records with records > CI/CA, but I couldn't tell if this meant that you could or could not have an ESDS file with individual (spanned) records > 32K." I have tried to do this in both Cobol and Assembler and was only successful in Assembler. I created an ESDS with 41000 byte records, and did am IDCAMS PRINT to check that the record was truly 41000 bytes. I have a sample if it is required. Kind regards - Terry Terry Sambrooks Director KMS-IT Limited 228 Abbeydale Road South Dore, Sheffield, S17 3LA, UK Tel: +44 (0)114 262 0933 WEB: www.legac-e.co.uk Company Reg: 3767263 at the above address All outgoing E-mail is scanned, but it remains the recipients responsibility to ensure their system is protected from spy-ware, trojans, viruses, and worms. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
