Mike O'Connell wrote: >I am trying to find the flags that would tell me if a DCB is "short" (i.e. has >x'3C' or less bytes). Perhaps its the fact that NO flags are set in the short >DCB at fields DCBMACR (in FOUNDATION BEFORE OPEN ) and/or DCBMACRF (in >FOUNDATION AFTER OPEN)?
Weird. After some RTFM in 'z/OS DFSMSdfp Advanced Services', I see this: "The EXCP DCB does not have a field to contain the current or maximum block size but the DCBE does have such a field." That field is DCBELEN, but nothing for DCB. Hmmm, I must also missing something... Could you be kind to tell us why or for what purposes you want the length of that DCB? What device(s) or access method(s) are involved? Any reason why you need that length? Groete / Greetings Elardus Engelbrecht ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
