Hi everyone, We have a product that captures data from SYSOUT files of both JES2 and JES3 and use the SSOB extension SAPI with the SSS2 control block and the PUT/GET function. In order to calculate the size of the data, we use the double-word field SSS2BYCT which is supposed to give the "Byte count after blank truncation 63 bit right justified". We observed though that for big datasets of several gigabytes, this field stops at 2GB precisely (x'7FFFFFFF') and the leftmost word is actually never used and remains at 0. Other observations in our environment (z/OS 1.11) is that the page count field (SSS2PGCT) is at 0 and lime count field (SSS2LNCT) is correct. Anyone has an idea why the byte count field never goes beyond 2GB ? Is it a known problem or feature ? I ran through the documentation - MVS Data Areas for the SSS2 block and Using the Subsystem Interface (SA22-7642-11) Chapter 3, SYSOUT Application Program Interface (SAPI) - SSI Function Code 79, and could not find anything special within the explanations of these fields.
Thank you, Jonathan Eshel RSD S.A. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
