On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 18:51:47 -0000, Van Dalsen, Herbie wrote: >Hang on, I must be missing something... > >This is my output from the tail command in OMVS in tso, which I am sure can be >used in BPXbatch. So If you mount your dataset in OMVS / USS as /var/tailin >OMVS.TAILIN and a second one as /var/tailout OMVS.TAILOUT(empty) and issue the >command tail /var/tailin > /var/tailout, won't you get the best results ? No >messing around with other unix systems etc and code that someone needs to >rewrite in 2 year's time? > You're the first person who has mentioned "other unix systems"; I believe the rest of us had assumed from the beginning z/OS Unix System Services. This still leaves unanswered my concerns about binary data in RECFM=V(B) and John M.'s about short generations.
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