On 12 February 2014 20:07, Charles Mills <charl...@mcn.org> wrote: >> Sure - it could assign one. It wouldn't have to be unique; just > access-exception correct. > > And then the OP would have cleared that "dummy" storage area passed back > from OBTAIN and wondered how _that_ happened.
If you clear only your requested 0 bytes of the area, all should be well. MVCL and friends would work fine for that. > I don't see how IBM solves it without creating a nightmare for some number of > programs that do this. That clear more storage than they requested? Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
