"I'd call it, rather, the first byte of the following record." It cant be, by definition.
If I have a record starting at RBA 0 of length 32, the ending RBA of the previous record is 32. Then if I have a record of length 0, 32+0 = 32. Joe On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 1:39 PM Paul Gilmartin < [email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 19:56:15 -0600, Joe Monk wrote: > > >ESDS uses RBA (relative byte address). You cant store a record at RBA 0, > >because that would be the last byte of the previous record. > > > I'd call it, rather, the first byte of the following record. > > But, whichever, why should it be an obstacle to having a zero-length > record? > > In the sixth century brilliant Indian mathematicians added zero > to the number system. IBM designers have not yet caught up. > > >On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 4:55 PM Frank Swarbrick wrote: > > > >> So I am trying to copy sequential file to a VSAM ESDS. One of the lines > >> in the source file has a record length of zero. Apparently VSAM does > not > >> support zero-length records? Can this be true? This blank line has > >> "meaning". What are my options? > > -- 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
