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Pedro
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From the manual: "The FLUSH statement flushes the buffers associated with an open output file... [blah blah]"
It is not clear what 'flushes' means. It seems destructive.
Or does it mean that the buffers actually make it to the print file? |
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steve-myers
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| Pedro wrote: |
| From the manual: "The FLUSH statement flushes the buffers associated with an open output file... [blah blah]" ... |
Which manual? I searched the entire DFSMS manual set and found no "FLUSH" macro. |
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Pedro
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Sorry for not being clear.
I posted this question in the PLI & Assembler forum... it is a PLI question. I was referring to the Language Reference, SC14-7285. |
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prino
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FLUSH statement
The FLUSH statement can be used to flush one or all files.
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FLUSH -+- FILE(file-reference) -+- ;
+- FILE(*) --------------+
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FILE
Specifies the name of the output file.
The FLUSH statement flushes the buffers associated with an open output file (or with all open output files if * is specified). This normally happens when the file is closed or the program ends, but the FLUSH statement ensures the buffers are flushed before any other processing occurs.
You can do this for SYSPRINT (after a PUT DATA) to make the output immediately visible in, for example, SDSF. |
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Willy Jensen
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| FLUSH normally means writing the buffers to ther destination. This is not just a PL/I thing. |
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Bernie Rataj
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| The FLUSH statement doesn't currently work for record files. See APAR PI95695. |
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