In <0997106197004218.wa.paulgboulderaim....@listserv.ua.edu>, on 06/10/2013 at 04:02 PM, Paul Gilmartin <paulgboul...@aim.com> said:
>Is uniform lengths a requirement? No. >Do any applications rely on being able to calculate a cylinder and >track address within a VBS data set? I hope not; if it does, it's broken. >Does this mean one can't append (MOD) to a VBS data set? No. >What happens if after writing the last segment of a logical record >the block is not filled up to BLKSIZE but fewer bytes are >available than the length of a SDW? Short block. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT Atid/2 <http://patriot.net/~shmuel> We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress. (S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN