Perhaps I has missed something here.
>From what I can glean form the posts to date, Joe seeks to display a set of messages from an area of memory to the SNAP dataset, for which a DCB has been defined as per the manual. A BSAM WRITE is used to add records to the dataset looping until "Last Message" is detected and written. Many moons ago, when I developed the odd bit of code and had a similar requirement, I did not use BSAM WRITE. Having set up a SNAP DCB (using values that I would never have contemplated unless instructed), I then used the SNAP macro using the STORAGE operand and let IBM code do the rest. Yes, I got a lot of stuff that I did not need as part of the SNAP process, but it served my purpose in that the storage was displayed (and I didn't have to worry about RDWs, BDWs and Blocks). My view was that since the code was of a temporary nature I did not want to focus a lot of time on it - preferring to concentrate on the actual application. To that end, SNAP was most helpful. Mike Kerford-Byrnes ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
