On Tue, 17 Jan 2017 19:50:29 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote: > >o It's OK for the replacing string to be the same length as the replaced > string, or shorter. > >The "shorter" case intrigues me. Does it shuffle the remaining records in >the block and write a shorter block? Is this done by the Rexx function >library or by QSAM? And how does it fill in the longer inter-block gap >without either overwriting the next block or leaving residual data? Does >it rewrite all remaining blocks in the track then do a formatting write to >the end-of-track? > On further review:
Ah! It pads the replacing record with x'40' to the length of the replaced record, whether RECFM=VB or RECFM=U. I think that's cheating. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
