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

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