Hi again

Fascinating! This sounds like you really have found a hole. I would
like to hear how this ends.

Are you using COBOL IO verbs or intrinsic calls?

Regards
John

--- "ABOOTORAB,MICHAEL (HP-PaloAlto,ex1)"
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I forgot to mention a crucial piece of information.
>
> The black holes gets removed from the file a few
> hours later (some times 8
> hrs) and
> the values replacing the null are what they are
> supposed to be !
>
> This suggests that there is some sort of delayed
> caching going on.
>
> After I posted this message , some one informed me
> that , HP lab is aware of
> this problem and they can actually duplicate it ( I
> have the engineers name
> and will
> contact him).
>
> Another e-mail informed me that HP lab has a patch
> for it(don't think so).
> I'll post messages as I get them.
>
> I still think , regardless of the reason, it would
> be a good idea to
> change the blocking factor of the output file to 1.
>

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