In a recent note <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 09:14:46 -0400
>
> On Thursday 15 June 2006 22:20, Ron and Jenny Hawkins wrote:
> > Sad! It ridiculous. Obviously no-one ever showed this guy the
> > Utilities manual so he could run IEBCOPY instead of inventing PCFORM.
>
> Bad example: IEBCOPY creates a file with RECFM=VB records which isn't
>
RECFM=VBS, I believe.
> suited for download to a PC. A tool that creates RECFM=FB records is
> required, e.g. IEHMOVE/SYSMOVE, TRANSMIT OUTDA(), TRSMAIN or PCFORM.
>
Actually, there's a well-known IBM product that does this routinely
to copy unloaded PDS[E] to HFS and back, implementing the effect of:
//STEP EXEC PGM=IEBGENER
//SYSUT2 DD FILEDATA=BINARY,PATH=/some/HFS/file
//SYSUT1 DD DISP=SHR,DSN=SOME.UNLOADED.PDS[E],RECFM=U
The copied BDWs contain all the information necessary to recreate the
original unloaded PDS in a Classic data set. (But _that_ can't be
done with IEBGENER.)
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