Change history is flagging blank rows as changed after editing an element in Quickedit

Products

• Endevor

Issue/Introduction

 After using Quick Edit to modify some of CPGM elements, the change history is flagging blank rows (that were not modified) as being changed.

The CPGM library is a VB format with a LRECL=255, BLKSIZE=32760.

Quick Edit Action Options have 'Preserve VB Record Length' set to 'Y'.

Why is this happening? 

Environment

Release : All

Endevor 

Quickedit 

Resolution

On the Type Definition panel make sure that "Element RECFM" is set to 'V'.  

ELEment RECfm IS FIXed | VARiable | NOT DEFINED

Specifies whether the Element has fixed-length records or variable length records. This parameter is used by the Endevor SCM Quick Edit option only.

During a Quick Edit session, a temporary ISPF edit data set is allocated to hold the Element to be edited. The edit data set is allocated as variable or fixed.

If this clause is omitted or Not Defined is specified, the record RECFM is determined by the input data set record lengths.

For example, the data set is allocated as variable if the Element already exists and the Element records have varying lengths. It is allocated as fixed if the Element already exists and all the Element records are the same length. It is always allocated as fixed if a Quick Edit Create command is executed to create a new Element. If it is allocated as fixed length, the record length is the Type source length that is defined by the Source Element Length parameter.