On 8/28/2012 3:19 PM, glen herrmannsfeldt wrote:
Shmuel Metz , Seymour J. <[email protected]> wrote:
In <[email protected]>, on 08/28/2012
at 12:34 AM, "R.S." <[email protected]> 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.
But for CKD doesn't there have to be some place to write the EOF?
I think BSAM/QSAM will simulate an EOF without doing any I/O
to the data set if you try to read it.
--
RIchard
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