A RECFM=Vxx dataset can be FTP'd directly (BINARY) and reassembled at
z/OS destination.
Many moons ago I wrote an assembler quickie while contracting to IBM
TCP/IP that could read stream input (dataset of continuous bytes) containing
BDW's, RDW's, SDW's, etc. and reconstruct the original RECFM=V|VS|VB|VBS,
etc. dataset. Even LRECL=X if I recall correctly. The quickie (and
equivalents) were given to some customers and may have been included in an
APAR.
You can use IEBGENER or equivalent to create strem dataset by
overriding //SYSUT1 that points to V dataset with DCB=RECFM=U. You can even
skip copying V to stream by running batch FTP specifying source dataset via
DDNAME with //DDNAME containing DCB=RECFM=U override. Not sure if latter
still works.
I had added SITE RDW option to FTP but I believe there's a better option
today that includes BDW's as well as RDW's which obviates need for both
DCB=RECFM=U overrides.
CrayOS had pseudo VBS support and FTP was used long ago to transfer such
files twixt MVS and CrayOS.
Cheers, - Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Gilmartin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Newsgroups: bit.listserv.ibm-main
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, May 04, 2006 10:58 AM
Subject: Re: Help : FTP A PDS
On Thu, 4 May 2006 09:44:39 -0400, Juraschek, David F
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
...
Not if the different packaging tool uses variable length records that
can't be reconstructed from a bit stream.
-- gil
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