On Sat, 19 Mar 2016 15:12:36 -0400, Pinnacle wrote: >On 3/19/2016 11:05 AM, Frank Clarke wrote: >> On 30 Dec 2015 14:26:08 -0800, (Ze'ev Atlas) wrote: >> >>> Originally, I had "EXECIO * DISKW XXOUT (STEM INPUT." >>> but that would work only for members that had statistics (i.e. have been >>> updated). When I changed the '*' to input.0 it works fine. Is that a >>> normal behavior? (I ran on z/OS 2.2! Ze'ev Atlas >> Is that because all the members with statistics had been Edited and ISPF Edit always pads empty lines? What happens if:
o You have a member without statistics but containing only nonempty lines? o You create statistics for a member containing empty lines? - Does it fail likewise despite having statistics? Or - Does merely adding statistics scan the member and pad empty lines? >> Never ever ever never never "EXECIO * DISKW" > >Good advice from Mr. Clarke. EXECIO * DISKW will stop the output if it >encounters a blank line. Keep a counter of what you want to write and >always use an explicit number of records for DISKW. > My experience is that nonempty blank lines cause no problems; empty lines are the culprit. Have you evidence to the contrary? CMS files are not allowed to contain empty lines, therefore an empty line was reasonably, almost necessarily, a terminator for EXECIO * DISKW in CMS. I fear this CMS foolishness infected the design of MVS EXECIO. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
