On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 08:31:11 -0600, John McKown wrote: >Have you looked at the > >LOCSITE RDW > >ftp command? It works for binary transfers. It actually sends (or >receives) the 4 byte RDW > >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/f1a1b990/5.36 > ><quote> >RDW >Specifies that variable record descriptor words (RDWs) are treated as >if they were part of the record and are not discarded during FTP >transmission of variable format data sets. ... ></quote> > It should, but, NO! The last time I tried this, it correctly placed the RDWs in the stream going from z to Open, but coming back from Open to Z, the "(RDWs) are treated as if they were part of the record" and become part of the data, not RDWs in the reloaded data set.
Evidently some coder took the spec excessively literally, and made RDWs part of the data in both transfer directions. Perhaps it has been fixed. You can try a PMR. Likely they'll say WAD, quote the manual text, and plead compatibility impacts. Manifestly they never validated the implementation against the objective. Morons. TERSE; upload. Download; deTERSE. A PITA for your user. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
