I tried creating a PS FB LRECL=6 for a list of volsers.  It was not
created  and didn't work until it got to 10.  Other files I have seen
replace a zero length record replaced with a 1 blank record.

On Sat, Dec 28, 2019 at 1:39 PM Paul Gilmartin
<[email protected]> wrote:
>
> 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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