z/OS MVS Using the Subsystem Interface
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Representation of variable size data

z/OS MVS Using the Subsystem Interface
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Some output data for devices have variable size and do not fit easily in a simple structure mapping. These data are physically located after the owning structure and are represented in a fixed part of a structure with a triple:
  • Offset from the beginning of the structure to the first byte of variable-size data.
  • Number of elements in the array.
  • Length of each element of the array.

In this case, the length of the structure includes the length of the fixed part of the structure and the length of all variable-size elements belonging to that structure.

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