Does the padding occur regardless of the setting of NULLS?
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> on behalf of Cameron Conacher <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 8, 2019 8:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: ISPF Question - browsing variable length records Good morning folks Nothing urgent, but a question that has been nagging me for some time. If I browse a variable length file using ISPF Option #1, and view with HEX ON, I see the record appears to be padded out to the maximum record length with spaces. However, if I browse the file by selecting it from a 3.4 file list, the records do not appear padded. The actual records are not padded, so ISPF BROWSE OPTION #1 is doing something just a little differently that the ISPF 3.4 list browse operation. Nothing terrible, but I am wondering if there is some magic incantation I can use to make BROWSE operate the same from both entry points. Is this just an undocumented "feature"? Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
