In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
on 05/31/2007
at 03:01 PM, John Ticic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>Unless done correctly the FTP of some datasets, such as those with
>Variable or Undefined record formats, will "fail" in that the
>resulting file on the PC is unusable due to lack of end-of-record
>indicators.
FSVO "fail" and FSVO "unusable". I can FTP the data to another zSeries
machine. I can also write a PC program that handles them.
>This is a logical failure and not a physical failure.
It's not a failure of the transfer, it's a failure of the user to
understand what he's doing. The data are still there and still usable,
at least until the user does something stupid to muck them up.
>Wouldn't specifying TYPE E and MODE B get around the problem.
No. The user would *still* have to know what he was doing when he
requested the transfer in the other direction.
--
Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
ISO position; see <http://patriot.net/~shmuel/resume/brief.html>
We don't care. We don't have to care, we're Congress.
(S877: The Shut up and Eat Your spam act of 2003)
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