In <[email protected]>, on 12/08/2013
at 07:55 AM, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> said:
>> Yes, however FBS stands for Fixed Block Standard, not Spanned.
>Exactly. And the last record in an FBS data set can be "short",
>i.e. less than lrecl.
ITYM "i.e., less than BLKSIZE"; the block can never be less than LRECL
for FBS.
>The short record denotes the end of the data set.
>And all the utility programs know it
It's the access method; the utility program doesn't need to do
anything special to get EOF after a short block. It's when the utility
wants to suppress the EOF that it needs more code, but it can always
override to RECFM=FB.
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