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Re: DSECT for MVS PDS vol def block?

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From: Paolo Bandini
Date: Thu, 07 Aug 1997 00:00
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giprice@ibm.net wrote:

> Just for the sake of it, I'll say that ISPF checks that the
> 2 bytes after the 8-byte userid field are blank.  If they
> aren't blank, ISPF does not treat the member userdata
> as SPF statistics.  I continue to ramble to the effect that
> Fujitsu decided to save that halfword and reduced PFD
> (not PDF) statistics to 14 halfwords.  Last time I checked
> PFD still understood the original 15 h/w format.  Must be
> time for my medication.  Bye.
> Greg

Not only the two last byte must be blank, but the last byte of Userid
must be blank too.
Of course we cannot have a 8-bytes userid, but we cannot use that field
for true 8-bytes data.
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From: Paolo Bandini <pbandini@sienanet.it>
Subject: Re: DSECT for MVS PDS vol def block?
Date: 1997/08/07
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