SPEED. RECOVERY does not appear to make any difference. HI-U-RBA is still 0. ________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Gerhard Adam <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 4:59 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: empty KSDS behavior - why?
Perhaps a silly question, but were these files allocated with RECOVERY or SPEED? IIRC, RECOVERY pre-formats the first control area with binary zeros. In other words, does changing this specification change the behavior? Adam Sent from my iPhone > On May 29, 2018, at 3:12 PM, Frank Swarbrick <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Test 1 - both DVFJS.DUMMY1 and DVFJS.DUMMY2 are "un-initialized" (HI-U-RBA is > 0): > > REPRO IDS(DVFJS.DUMMY1) ODS(DVFJS.DUMMY2) > IDC3300I ERROR OPENING DVFJS.DUMMY1 > IDC3351I ** VSAM OPEN RETURN CODE IS 160 > IDC0005I NUMBER OF RECORDS PROCESSED WAS 0 > IDC3003I FUNCTION TERMINATED. CONDITION CODE IS 12 > > Test 2 - after adding a record to DVFJS.DUMMY1, and then deleting the record > (HI-U-RBA is now 829440): > > REPRO IDS(DVFJS.DUMMY1) ODS(DVFJS.DUMMY2) > IDC0005I NUMBER OF RECORDS PROCESSED WAS 0 > IDC0001I FUNCTION COMPLETED, HIGHEST CONDITION CODE WAS 0 > > In this latter case DVFJS.DUMMY2 remains "un-initialized" (HI-U-RBA is still > 0). > > ________________________________ > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of > Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 12:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: empty KSDS behavior - why? > >> On Tue, 29 May 2018 18:12:16 +0000, Seymour J Metz wrote: >> >> Why would IBM have to add a key? What is necessary is to create an empty >> KSDS that can be read; add and delete is one way to do it, and doesn't leave >> a key behind. I'd prefer that they just initialized it to have the same >> contents as adding and deleting. > Is the result identical whether the added/deleted record has key high-values, > low-values, or something > in between? > > And I'll repeat my question, what is the result of REPROing a properly > initialized > but currently empty KSDS? > > -- gil > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
