On Mon, 4 Jun 2007 19:26:53 -0500, Ed Gould wrote: > >Err IBM used to have a FDP product that did just that. I am not sure >if they still market it or not. It was not designed specifically for >this it was an hmmm designed to take almost any format file and >create an 80 byte image enveloped inside JCL and send it to the >spool. It was then NJE'd to the receiving system and then >reconstructed into the right format and sent to the utility of choice > TSO TRANSMIT comes tantalizingly close to doing the central part of this in that it creates LRECL=80 images of many file formats. However, those can't be safely enveloped inside JCL because there's no guarantee that the TRANSMIT output won't have a "//" (or any other digraph) in columns 1-2 that will act as an unintended delimiter.
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