I tried, unsuccessfully, four or five years ago to write an EOF record with a non-zero key length but a zero data length, and it failed with a permanent I/O error. I don't recall if this possible combination is documented in any Control Unit Reference book as not being allowed.
Bill Fairchild Franklin, TN ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerhard Postpischil" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2013 7:48:54 PM Subject: Re: Allocation test >And depending on your definition, an EOF is a record (it may have a non-zero key length, thus carry information). ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
