On Mon, 4 Feb 2008 11:27:00 -0500, Shmuel Metz (Seymour J.) wrote: > >>I have received a file which has been ftp'd in binary from a mainframe >>site to a windows pc and then emailed to me. The file was originally >>RECFM=VB. Is there a way to ftp it back to another mainframe and recreate >>the original file attributes. > >If some combination of bin and struc doesn't work, try sending it in >binary to an intermediate Unix file on your MVS system. > By dismaying experiment, (LOC)SITE RDW is incredibly misimplemented; good only for interpreting the RDWs on the non-IBM system, not for restoring the file to z/OS. STRU R is likely to be rejected by a non-IBM client. The only way to do this iw to work from the non-IBM system as a client (which the OP was likely trying to do anyway) and use "BINARY; QUOTE (whatever)". Better is TERSE or TRANSMIT. None of these techniques can reconstruct the existing E-mail attachment.
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