Hello: I received this yesterday :
> I seem to be getting an error using R226 of BR ISPF cmd/program. > When I enter for example: BR RRK6723.LOADLIB I am getting an > error msg: Syntax error in data set name ' .K6723.LOADLIB'. The problem can be fixed by changing 5X to 7X after IECSDSL1. BR is a TSO command used to BROWSE VSAM and DAM files in ISPF. It is distributed in file 183 of the CBT tape as well as here : http://gsf-soft.com/Freeware/ It seems that something has changed with OBTAIN in z/OS R10, so I looked in File 183 and only found that the BR program is affected. If I'm not mistaken, what has changed is this : when OBTAIN is used with CAMLST SEARCH to find a F1-DSCB based on a dsname, it used to return 96+5 bytes, i.e. the last 96 bytes of the DSCB plus its CCHHR on the disk. Now, in z/OS R10, it returns 96+7 bytes and I don't know what the additional 2 bytes are (they appear as ' .' in the message copied above). The OBTAIN doc tells you to specify a 140 bytes area to receive the DSCB with CAMLST SEARCH. The problem is that I discovered 30 years ago that OBTAIN only needed 96+5 bytes and that's the way I coded it in dozens of programs : OBTAIN SEARCH,JFCBDSNM,JFCBVOLS,DS1FMTID . . . . IECSDSL1 1 F1-DSCB DS XL5 CCHHR Because the work area in OBTAIN is specified as DS1FMTID which is behind DS1DSNAM at offset 44 in the DSCB, I should have 44 bytes after the DSCB to provide the 140-byte output area specified in the doc. In R227 of BR, I will change XL5 to XL44, like this : IECSDSL1 1 F1-DSCB DS XL44 CCHHR + ????? or perhaps like that : IECSDSL1 1 F1-DSCB ORG DS1FMTID+140 CCHHR + ????? I don't have access to z/OS R10, so I can't figure out what OBTAIN puts in the two additional bytes - does anybody know ? -- Gilbert Saint-Flour GSF Software http://gsf-soft.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
