On 10/2/07, Paul Gilmartin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > to use. I'll study Rob's longer reply next. A solution might be > asymmetric, using CMS on one end and z/OS on the other.
And he should point out that he forgot that tape records may run longer than 32K and thus cause pain when writing a CMS file. To protect your feet, you could use "block 4096 cms4" at one end, and "deblock cms4" on the other end. It's certainly possible. I once wrote a JCL pre-processor on VM that replaced tape references in the JCL by inline data read from tape on VM. Some of the block options in CMS Pipelines came handy because I would read the data from tape, block vbs to transmit in 80-byte cards, and on the MVS side override the DCB to make it think the data was VBS. Big fun. I think the EOTOK option on the tape stage was done by the Piper for this project... Rob
