I got around it by substituting '~*' if I found '/* in col 1 (which I knew, in our environment, would never be found in real live data).
Many moons ago, at an employer, we had a pair of programs called SPEAKER and AUDIENCE that were used to transmit data between MVS, VS1 and DOS, and ran on all 3 platforms. It did it in a similar fashion as to what I did (build a job stream to be transmitted). I wish I'd snagged a copy of them. -- M. Ray Mullins Roseville, CA, USA http://www.catherdersoftware.com/ http://www.mrmullins.big-bear-city.ca.us/ http://www.the-bus-stops-here.org/ German is essentially a form of assembly language consisting entirely of far calls heavily accented with throaty guttural sounds. --ilvi > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin > Sent: Monday 24 July 2006 17:13 > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: VSE Version of XMIT & Receive > > 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. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
