Re: Reply list entry handling?

On 30 Nov 2012 09:13, Mark S Waterbury wrote:

Assuming you can somehow avoid the MCH6801 that will result from
trying to use a pointer to a system domain object to examine the
internals of an IBM-defined object, this approach seems far more
likely to be subject to change from release to release than relying
on the layout of spool file records, e.g. using the output of the
WRKRPYLE *PRINT command. :-o

Actually the output via the printer file changes on every release, but the *SYSRPYL implementation object likely remains unchanged over many releases. I would not be surprised if the object layout has been unchanged since the S/38. Of course the changes to the spooled data is likely to be only the information that which matches the service OIR, i.e. feature identifiers, and V#R#M# values, plus the GA date of the release. When not spooling directly to a database file, the biggest differences are across languages and SBCS vs DBCS specifications of the PRTF; the latter detail I recall may affect layout in a database file, but I do not recall if only when using CPYSPLF or if also for directing output to a database file.