In a recent note, Ray Mullins said: > Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 16:59:15 -0700 > > Problem #3 - Because of how #2 works, if '/*' winds up in cols 1-2 of the > XMIT record, VSE will signal EOF and the REXX program terminates > prematurely. > A regrettable characteristic of the NETDATA format, owing to its origin in CMS, where '/*' was not a concern. DLM='xx' doesn't help much because there's no digraph that's guaranteed not to appear in cols 1-2 of a NETDATA package.
I once invented my own package format to move data from CMS to MVS because of this limitation. I wonder whether there's a dummy text unit which a filter could insert to cover record boundaries where '/*' might otherwise occur. SMP/E invented its (undocumented) GIMDTS format partly to keep troublesome digraphs out of cols 1-2 of instream data sets. -- gil -- StorageTek INFORMATION made POWERFUL ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
