Re: Class Notes for a PL/I Course.

"Giuseppe Vitillaro giuseppe-yuD/ahkh7LvrZ44/[email protected] [H390-MVS]" <[email protected]> Sat, 5 Oct 2019 10:18:27 +0200 (CEST)
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2019, Charles Bailey [email protected] [H390-MVS] wrote:

>
> > Am I right betting a variable length dataset can't have a zero length
> records?
> I haven't worked with VS datasets, but I know that regular V[B] datasets
> can have records with  zero length.  (At least in MVS, yes; in VM/CMS, no.)
>
> Charles Bailey
>
Ouch. Thanks.

But I bet that if I use 0xFFFF for logical EOF I'm on
the safe side?

Peppe.