On Mon, 16 Feb 2015 08:28:39 -0700, Lizette Koehler wrote: >Though I am not a fan of Knowledge Center, the one element they provided is >the ability to ADD COMMENTs to the section. If you feel it is lacking >details, you should be able to supply additional comments. > I've done that, at times. OTOH, one advantage of the RCF is that the submitter gets feedback on the status. But I have one RCF of a simple question with a probably complex answer that's long been pending. I wish that in such cases IBM Pubs itself would ADD COMMENTS to Knowledge Center.
(The question I asked, well, perhaps not so simple: * Parameter z/OS MVS JCL Reference SA23-1385-00 http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/zos/v2r1/topic/com.ibm.zos.v2r1.ieab600/xddaster.htm Please provide an explanation of what determines the attributes (RECFM, LRECL, BLKSIZE) merged into the DCB by OPEN. I suspect any or all of: o LRECL on the SYSIN DD statement o Attributes with which INTRDR is allocated o JESRECFM and JESLRECL in FTP commands with FILETYPE=JES o Attributes coded in the DCB macro o Attributes modified by the DCB OPEN exit o Operation of SDB o Length of records appearing in the instream data set o Length of records modified by symbol substitution o JES2 versus JES3 (I suspect their behaviors differ). This seems complicated enough that English prose is probably an inadequate medium to communicate it. Better would be a table or a flow chart. The information should appear in one place, not redundantly under "*" and "DATA", lest updates leave them out of sync. They say is has been accepted as a clarification. They've not provided details in response to a followup request.) -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
