On Sun, 19 Jun 2016 17:54:24 +0000, J R wrote: >The PDS gotchas described in this thread have existed since Christ was a >cowboy. Yes, something should have been done about it since the first cha was >got. However, given that that eventuality never came to pass, what amazes me >most is that it's still such a hot topic fifty years later! > It shall remain a hot topic as long as unwitting programmers continue to fall into the pit.
>Does PDSE avert at least the directory integrity weakness? > I hope. I suppose I need to test. It's plausible even that for (FSVO) compatibility the operation will succeed as a no-op, much like an attempt to compress a PDSE with IEBCOPY. RC=?? This was most often done as a shortcut to empty a PDS: write a terminator at the beginning of the directory and reset DS1LSTAR. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
