truncating data from sequential files

[zweefs]

Hi,

Does anybody has experience truncating sequential data sets using ZFILE or other means?

We are looking for an implementation of the C++ library ftruncate() in a java library.

java.nio supports truncate as well (see http://java.sun.com/j2se/1.4.2/docs/ap ... ne l.html )

Or are there any other alternatives to delete written data (records) from a file?

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[dovetail]

This is a limitation of the z/OS C++ library - classic MVS datasets cannot be truncated in the middle.

For more discussion, see: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/forum ... 694&cat=28