Well, it took me half a day altogether but other than that you were right. I let how different and complex CSVDYLPA was relative to LOAD/DELETE put me off. But it's running now and it's really much better.
When there are multiple instances of a given name then guessing which one DELETE will delete is a little bit of a crap shoot. (Technically it's deterministic but there is a lot of manual reading and cross-referencing and reading between the lines involved.) At first the added complexity of the delete token in CSVDYLPA put me off, but by gosh there is no guessing game about which instance will get deleted. If you don't know the token of the instance you want to delete then you shouldn't do it at all. Thanks everyone for your help. Charles -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tom Marchant Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2011 4:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: What is "address spec terminates" in context of LOAD EOM=YES? On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 20:16:05 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: >Storage is cheap. I can pad my >1K+ by 50% and it won't be the end of the world. Allocating 50% more common storage than you need is IMO a bad idea, particularly if it is just so you won't have to change your LOAD to CSVDYLPA. CSVDYLPA is not difficult to use. Get out the book, spend half an hour reading and ten minutes coding and avoid all of the other weird stuff that you are thinking of doing. Your code will be much simpler and more straightforward. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
