On Thu, 18 Mar 2010 14:36:55 +0200, G+D+J+ B+N% #B+J+ wrote: >None of our users currently use USS. >I would like to avoid it if possible.
Avoiding a possible solution to a problem fits the definiton of bigotry. When the file arrives at OS, what are the line separators? If they are, in fact, 0x15 (or you can arrange this by specifying a translation table with LOCSITE), the use of "USS" is minimal. FTP from DOS platform to Unix file; FTP from localhost (can be in same job step) Unix file to OS data set. One of the few good things about OS is its support of temporary data sets that can be passed from step to step. I wish they had provided similar for Unix files (PATHDISP=PASS, rather than only KEEP or DELETE) with generated filenames, to be deleted at end of job, after accessing with referbacks in intervening steps. >I heard from the people who actually create the files (They belong to another >organization and will not change the files), ... > That, too, might be bigotry. But if they insist on using UNIX-styls line separators on a DOS system, I suspect they supply the files to a UNIX system at their site. Could you connect to that system as an FTP server? It would supply network standard line separators. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
