>Is it not possible to go direct from HFS to HFS and omit the >legacy data set waystation? Unfortunately, no, it is not possible right now.
>I'd suggest using "pax -w ..." I want to totally bypass system#1/hfs#1 ....... I want to IND$FILE to a seq on system#2 and then OPUT to hfs#2. Looking to figure out what DCB to use for the seq files on system#2. The PAX method looks to still involve system#1. Rgrds, Joseph Sumi -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Friday, May 21, 2010 12:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: gif,doc,html - LRECL's On Fri, 21 May 2010 11:49:50 -0400, Sumi, Joseph J. (CMS/CTR) (CTR) wrote: >I xfer files that have .gif, .doc, .html, .pdf extensions from my pc to >a mainframe HFS to be hosted by a mainframe webserver. I have to move >these around to get them where I want. I copy them out of my HFS to a >sequential file and then moved to a different system to be copied back >to a different HFS. The lrecl and blksize are automatically determined Is it not possible to go direct from HFS to HFS and omit the legacy data set waystation? >when copying from ISHELL and everything works out fine but I would like >to skip some steps and copy from my PC to a pre-allocated sequential >file directly. > >My question is, what is the rule of thumb for determining LRECLs for >file types like this ?? How do I know what they should be if I am >pre-allocating the dataset that they will be uploaded to ? > >xxx.DOC PS VB automatically set --> 32756 32760 >xxx.GIF PS VB automatically set --> 18443 27998 >xxx.HTML PS VB automatically set --> 26412 27998 > If you must, I'd suggest using "pax -w ..." with output directed to a legacy data set to unload the HFS files en masse; transfer that data set to the different system, and use "pax -r ..." to reload them. No more worry about LRECL, RECFM. -- 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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
