On Fri, 27 Dec 2019 19:56:15 -0600, Joe Monk wrote: >ESDS uses RBA (relative byte address). You cant store a record at RBA 0, >because that would be the last byte of the previous record. > I'd call it, rather, the first byte of the following record.
But, whichever, why should it be an obstacle to having a zero-length record? In the sixth century brilliant Indian mathematicians added zero to the number system. IBM designers have not yet caught up. >On Fri, Dec 27, 2019 at 4:55 PM Frank Swarbrick wrote: > >> So I am trying to copy sequential file to a VSAM ESDS. One of the lines >> in the source file has a record length of zero. Apparently VSAM does not >> support zero-length records? Can this be true? This blank line has >> "meaning". What are my options? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
