Empty Easytrieve input - A010 vs S001

Job should exit clean when the extract file is empty. JOB INPUT NULL / GET / IF EOF STOP.

Sometimes A010. Sometimes S001. Same JCL. What is going on?

Easytrieve needs a real EOF. File that was opened for output and closed is fine. "Empty" dataset that was only allocated in 3.2 with no EOF marker is not. That is your S001 flavor.

Create empties with IEBGENER or REPRO of zero records so the EOF is valid. Then GET + IF EOF works.

Upstream job was DISP=NEW without writing anything. Fixed the producer. Consumer is happy now.