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

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Sent: Tuesday, August 28, 2012 9:36 AM
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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.

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