No, it's not illogical. We use Format 1 DSCB entries as model DSCB for GDG's and other things. No data space use is needed for that, so we allocate TRK=0. No problem there!
Roger -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:36 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Space Allocation In Bytes In <503bf5eb.5010...@bremultibank.com.pl>, on 08/28/2012 at 12:34 AM, "R.S." <r.skoru...@bremultibank.com.pl> said: >Valid, but illogical. Data set with zero size is illogical. No. >That's exploitation of "side effect". Stilla valid (it works, so it is >valid), but it's still illogical. It's perfectly logical, as are /dev/null and DUMMY. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN