Sorry, those were all in the source record type, x;0030'. I wrote "Offset of ,,, in statement field appears to refer to the offset in source record." I did not write "appears to refer to the offset in statement field."
The first of the fields where that occurs is Offset of name entry in statement field FL4 Zero if name entry not present or if the name begins at the beginning of the source record (see note 1). These are followed by Source record offset FL4 The offset from the beginning of this record to the source record. The fixed part of the record ends in a reserved field, and is followed by three variable fields described as CL(n), the last of which is Source record. What I see in my ADATA is that the text following the reserved field is the source code for the statements. -- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 עַם יִשְׂרָאֵל חַי נֵ֣צַח יִשְׂרָאֵ֔ל לֹ֥א יְשַׁקֵּ֖ר ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Assembler List <[email protected]> on behalf of Peter Relson <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, November 4, 2024 8:50 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Offsets in ADATA Caution: This email did not originate from George Mason’s mail system. Do not click links or open attachments unless you recognize the sender and know the content is safe. Shmuel wrote <snip> Offset of ,,, in statement field appears to refer to the offset in source record."" Source record offset Source record are the terms used later. </snip> I was hoping you would share info such as "at this web page, in this section, I see this wording" or something a bit more detailed for locating the actual inconsistencies. I looked through a bunch of the record descriptions and where there was a field that was located from the beginning of the record, all the cases I saw said so, such as having "offset from the beginning of this record" in the description of the field that had offset at the end of its name. That contrasts with a field such as "offset of name entry in statement field" which I think is what it says it is, not what you think it "appears to refer to". I treat that as "offset within the statement field of where the name entry begins" and I think that that is the correct (and a reasonable) reading of that phrase. Maybe "within" would be better than "in" but use of "in" does not seem like an inhibitor to me. I have not tried this, I have not looked. If I'm wrong then I'd side with a change in that regard. I saw no references to "source record offset" but I could easily have missed it. Peter Relson z/OS Core Technology Design
