On Tue, 19 Jun 2012 07:20:24 -0500, Tom Marchant wrote: > >>the CBT utility that outputs in IEBUPDTE format is really the best, but I >>was looking for something standard that I could wrap in a REXX script so >>that end-users would need to install anything else. > >It is not at all clear to me what you want to do. Have you considered >using IEBGENER? What about TSO TRANSMIT, perhaps to a data set? > An unfortunate restriction of TSO TRANSMIT is that its output is not suitable for an instream data set. While it's FB 80, there's no guarantee that '//' or any other digraph chosen for DLM= won't occur in the data. Gerhard's assertion that ']' is "extremely unlikely" doesn't satisfy me.
But I've experimented with using uuencode on a tar-unloaded UNIX (USS) directory containing, among other things, a TRANSMIT-unloaded PDS. This fits safely in an instream data set, and can be created and reconstituted using only standard z/OS utilities. It all works, but Rube Goldberg. But I continue to believe that IEBUPDTE is not data-pattern safe. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
