On Wed, 16 Jun 2021 08:42:15 +0100, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw wrote: >Does the result depend on whether there is an EOF marker in the file? > I did restrict my plaint to ISPF Edit; I was considering only the number of lines in ISPF's view.
>Traditionally, such EOF markers were not written to new files. I know that >ISPF 3.2 does do this today, but I suspect that common (step) allocation does >not. > I believe that nowadays it depends on: o Availability of SMS. o DSORG=PS. o Access method. EXCP makes its own rules. IMO, DSORG should be irrelevant. Allocation should simply write EOF at the beginning of any newly obtained extent. DS1LSTAR adds complexity. >-----Original Message----- >From: Paul Gilmartin >Sent: 16 June 2021 04:50 >> ... >It irritates me that (AFAIK) ISPF Edit provides no way to extract the size of >a file without getting a warning (RC=4) on an empty file. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
