On Friday, 07/09/2010 at 09:25 EDT, Mark Pace <[email protected]> wrote:
> I'm trying to rewrite an old exec into a pipe.  While testing I had the 
pipe 
> write the output to the console and it's working as expected.  I 
replaced 
> | console     with 
> | > TEMP DATA A1
> and it does not create the file.  change it to console and it works 
again.
> Am I missing something obvious?
> 
> Do i = 1 to files.0                            
>  'PIPE ',                                      
>     '<' files.i '|',                           
>     'casei zone 1-* locate /'LookFor'/ |',     
>     'specs /'files.i'/ 1 |',                   
>     'unique |',                                
>     '> TEST DATA A1'                           
> end 

I think you want >> instead of >.    With >, the file is erased if there 
are no input records.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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