On 14/11/2020 2:26 pm, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
Is that:
RFC 4506 XDR: External Data Representation Standard May 2006
??? Which section?
Using Data Sets : JCL Parameters for Unix Files says:
"If you code FILEDATA=RECORD, the access method follows a portion of RFC
4506, XDR, External Data Representation Standard. The records that
FILEDATA=RECORD defines are either of these XDR types:
- Variable-length opaque data
- String
However the access method does not follow one characteristic of the XDR
standard. The standard specifies that if the number of bytes of data is
not a multiple of four, then the bytes are padded on the right with
binary zeroes. That would require the access method to insert the bytes
so that every record begins at an offset that is a multiple of four from
the beginning of the UNIX file. The access method does not insert any
padding."
Call me a pedant, but if the record length information is not where it
is supposed to be IBM is not following RFC 4506.
Andrew Rowley
Black Hill Software
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