> -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mark Zelden > Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 11:56 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: COBOL / VSAM question. > > > On Mon, 14 Apr 2008 12:33:16 -0400, Farley, Peter x23353 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >No smoke involved. We have that here in many different > programs, ALWAYS > >check for BOTH '00' and '97'. Or better yet (as someone > else mentioned) > >an 88 level on the FILE-STATUS identifier with both values. > > > > And sysplex has nothing to do with this really. It thought > this needed to > be done > since DF/EF in the 80's. I guess if you've run into > previous file status 97s, > someone must have run a VERIFY. > > Mark > --
I have NO idea about the VERIFY. And, of course, since the last thing that we did was convert to a sysplex, the first question out of the programmer's mouth was: "It has always worked before. Is the sysplex conversion the reason that it all of a sudden failed?" -- John McKown Senior Systems Programmer HealthMarkets Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage Administrative Services Group Information Technology The information contained in this e-mail message may be privileged and/or confidential. It is for intended addressee(s) only. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, reproduction, distribution or other use of this communication is strictly prohibited and could, in certain circumstances, be a criminal offense. If you have received this e-mail in error, please notify the sender by reply and delete this message without copying or disclosing it. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
