Re: JCL(?) question -- MIDRANGE-L

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> 
> >>blah!  i always hated it when someone did that at our shop, it invited
> trouble! (used the records-?F'A stuff).  If you change the A to an S, it
> is the allocated size, rather than the actual size.<<
> 
> Unfortunately, the use of ?F'S,xxxx' has the potential to return the number of
> BLOCKS (not records), it depends on how the file was created.  On the S/36, 
>you
> could create a file specifying an initial size of either blocks or records.  
>For
> Stephanie's knowledge, is this still an issue with the S/36 environment on the
> AS/400?


i don't think so.  for the 36 files, the 400 creates the files with a
jillion extensions built in.  

nj
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