That's only relevant if you're using BDAM.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [[email protected]] on behalf of Binyamin Dissen [[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2023 5:15 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Using BSAM to witre a RACFM=VB dataset I see that there is WRITE SF RC=4 which means that a WRITE SZ has to be issued (where the system supplies the record so there is zero application logic to build it) and then the original WRITE SF must be reissued. WRITE SF IF R15=4 then WRITE SZ CHECK SZ WRITE SF again ENDIF ? (1) Is this still required? Or is this 30 year old doc that hasn't been updated? (2) Is there a DCB option to do this automatically? While I have used BPAM/BSAM in the past, it was never variable length. So this is something new to me. -- Binyamin Dissen <[email protected]> http://www.dissensoftware.com/ Director, Dissen Software, Bar & Grill - Israel ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
