Okay, you got me curious about this. I guess the "short" DCB is the EXCP DCB?

Looks like the MACRF flags (x'32' before OPEN, x'2A' after OPEN) say

X'80' -DCBBIT0- EXECUTE CHANNEL PROGRAM (EXCP). ALWAYS ZERO (BSAM, QSAM, BPAM, 
BISAM, QISAM, BDAM). RESERVED (QTAM, BTAM)

So I would say "short DCB" is implied by an X'80' bit being on in MACRF.

Charles

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From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf 
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Subject: "short" DCBs

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)? 

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