Values of variable ZDLRECFM

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Martin G.
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Values of variable ZDLRECFM

Post by Martin G. » Wed Aug 10, 2011 6:39 pm

Hello to all,

in a REXX program I am working thrugh a list of files, generated by the ISPF Service LMDLIST. Depending on the value of ZDLRECFM I want to do some calculations and I am wondering about the different values of ZDLRECFM.
Those values are given: 'FB(A)', 'VB(A)', 'U' and '?'. And there are probably more values represented in the spool-list as '.' (dot). But this dot is not a dot (X'4B'), hex displaying shows it to be X'FF'. But I cannot ask for the value of X'FF' in my REXX,
IF LEFT(ZDLRECFM,1) = X'FF' THEN --> is not true.
This happens for example if the file I am investigating is a GDG-BASE-Entry or a VSAM cluster.
Can someone give me the right possible values of variable ZDLRECFM ?

Thanks in advance,
greetings
Martin

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Post by dbzTHEdinosauer » Wed Aug 10, 2011 7:52 pm

well, why don't you go back to the manual where you found LMDLIST
(or did you just copy some code and let it rip)

LM....... commands are library commands - library as in PDS or PDS-E.

suggest you look at the TSO External Function LISTDSI in the REXX Language Reference
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