On Sun, 15 Jun 2008 23:00:09 -0300, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote:

>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/15/2008
>   at 11:04 AM, Paul Gilmartin said:
>
>>And if there are INCLUDE members with similar numbers?
>
>The C/I should identify both the line number and the member.
>
>>I like HLASM's technique of an additional Informative message which
>>identifies the directory and member and relative line number in which
>>the error was detected
>
>HLASM also shows the sequence number.
>
And, at least for those lines lacking unique sequence numbers,
the C/I should identify the relative line number.

>In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, on 06/15/2008
>   at 11:11 AM, Paul Gilmartin said:
>
>>Which "access method" do programs running under TSO use to read from
>>DSN(*)?
>
>BSAM and QSAM.
>
>>I thought I had coded MACRF= to use BSAM.
>
>I had thought that BSAM was an access method.
>
>>Does either BSAM or VTAM do the folding?
>
>BSAM, not VTAM. QSAM as well.
>
I had imagined the TMP interposed its own filter behind BSAM/QSAM.
Educate me:  How, outside the TMP, can one code a call to BSAM or
QSAM to perform folding?  Is there something line DCB=(OPTCD=FOLD)?

-- gil

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