On Wed, 21 Jan 2026 18:50:05 -0500, allan winston wrote: >IIRC, the lengths in both the BDW and RDW include the 4-byte overhead. > >The BDW has the correct length. However, the RDWs should be x'00260000', >not x'00220000', assuming that each of the data fields are 34 bytes long. > ... I believe that BSAM uses the BDW as the length in a channel command. However, BSAM write is oblivious to RDWs.
But a subsequent QSAM read will observe invalid RDWs and report errors. >On Wed, Jan 21, 2026 at 11:48 AM Joseph Reichman wrote: >> ... >> When browsing the file in ISPF I see a bunch of literals ******** I/on >> error detected ******* >> ... >> However in the z/os job log nothing is mentioned of a I/o error -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
