In <[email protected]>, on 07/18/2014
at 07:40 AM, Peter Hunkeler <[email protected]> said:
>RECFM=U stands for undefined. As someone else already pointed out,
>every block can be of different length, no matter what block size
>is set. The block size field in the DCB is used to communicate the
>current block's length between the program and the access method.
No.
5. Undefined-length records when not using LBI: The actual
length of the record that was read is returned in the
DCBLRECL field of the DCB. Because of this use of DCBLRECL,
you should omit LRECL. Use this method only with BSAM, or
BPAM or after issuing a QSAM GET macro.
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ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
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