On Feb 26, 2010, at 06:53, Rob van der Heij wrote: > On Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Paul Gilmartin <[email protected]> wrote: > >> The key word here is "collection". VMFPLC, like VMARC will handle >> envelopes containing multiple files with different attributes. >> I don't believe netdata will do this. > > Since netdata wraps each file such that you see where it ends, you can > stack them in a single file. > Then I must provide a tool to unstack them. Yah, I know, "One can design a pipe to do that." I think the least overhead for the recipient is VMFPLC2 wrapped with COPYFILE (PACK).
> I was reading into your original post a way to transport between alike > systems over hostile roads. > That was my immediate objective: o Developers on CMS. o Unix (or perhaps windows) webserver. o Customer on CMS. ... but I rambled. Techniques to transport between unlike systems without loss of information can be adapted to transport between alike systems over hostile roads. > If you're looking for something to exchange data between unlike > systems in a way that makes sense, options get exponentially less > attractive with the number of systems you involve. ZIP tried things > like EBCDIC to ASCII conversion (which ones?) but it is rather alien > for CMS environments. > <RANT> CMS Pipelines implemented ISO8859-1 <--> IBM-1047 conversion "by the book". z/OS added a tweak to accommodate the historic behavior of C compilers, 3215 printers, and CP command separators, so CMS and z/OS differ. Dammit, if they differ in even one [pair of] codepoints, z/OS should have defined a different code page, not added a footnote to the doc. </RANT> Thanks, gil
