In a message dated 7/11/2007 5:53:55 A.M. Central Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >I located the PDS at location >** TRACK(CCHH) 1A580000 R0 DATA 0000000000000000 > COUNT 1A580000010005A0 >0000 6CD385A3 40E2A8A2 7EE5C1E3 5E404040 40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040 >0020 40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040 40404040 >0040 TO 009F SAME AS ABOVE Even worse than the absolute track number's being larger than 65535 is the fact that what you show at that track number does not look at all like a standard IBM PDS. If this is supposed to be the first track of the PDS, then either your PDS has been hosed (e.g., re-written) or you have not found the first track of it correctly. The Count field you show has a data length of 5A0, which is incorrect for a directory block, which should be 0100 (decimal 256). The data in that block looks seriously wrong for a directory block. The first 160 bytes which you show contain the following in EBCDIC/eyeball-readable form: "'Let Sys=VAT) " (or something like that). This data is completely inconsistent with what should be in any block in a PDS directory. Bill Fairchild Plainfield, IL
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