On 21 August 2013 20:39, Barry Merrill <ba...@mxg.com> wrote: > It's an easy JCL exercise to conduct an experiment to confirm what happens: > > TRSMAIN/AMATERSE will read a truncated tersed file and never detect it was > truncated. > > I copied a 105472 byte valid tersed file into a > DISP=(,CATLG,CATLG),SPACE=(TRK,(1)). > The original untersed to 360,480 bytes, while the truncated file untersed to > only 48152, > and there was no message nor warning that the input file was short.
Can you look at the last record in the truncated tersed dataset and see if it's zero-padded? Strictly one should look for a 12-bit zero, but a run of three of the 8-bit kind we're more used to would more than do the trick. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
