What is 5250 data stream FCW 8100

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Hi Simon,

The 8100 seems to be benign delimeter. I just tested 
it swapping a 8680 in a series of cont-entry fields 
and it just failed to word wrap but worked.  I'm sure 
it is a delimiter for dynamic adjustments.  They 
probably picked 81 b/c it's the first valid FCW that 
you can put 8100.  OTOH, an FCW of X'0000' will cause 
your job to sign off :)  From what I've seen 
especially with the cont-entry fields they had to 
provide some sort of way to dynamically deal with 
varying field structures. Dump a save screen of a 
screen of cont-entry fields and compare to fixed 
formatted screens and it is delimted similarly(that is 
markers to determine where the stream start/stops). I 
think cont-entry was a royal pain to retro-fit.  
Besides what else could one think with the whole EUI 
mess!

Thad