On Monday 18 May 2009 18:04, Paul Gilmartin wrote: >>What a stupid necessity that programmers have to code BLOCK CONTAINS 0 ! >> > What happens if the programmer pre-allocates the data set? > It's still a stupid necessity, but it might help in dealing with > situations where recompilation is impractical.
Well, pre-allocation is not very compatible with HSM, GDG, and a few other things. So I believe the combination between DISP=(,NEW,CATLG) and BLOCK CONTAINS 0 is the best choice to solve potential problems. And believe it or not, but many years ago, I wrote a utility to update load-modules and force BLKSIZE=0. I probably only used it only once. -- 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
