You have received a couple of ideas to solve the transfer problem. It's your last sentence I'm concerned about. If the minor tweaks are strictly limited to a character by character substitution (one for one) it may be OK (obviously not if the dataset contains a checksum). But if any substitution changes the number of characters in a "record", it will mess up XMIT/RECEIVE, TERSE, and/or the BDW/RDW to render the data unreadable by normal z/OS I/O.
And then there is my paranoid concern regarding why someone is altering a mainframe dataset to make it look like the mainframe has the wrong data. Data received from a Windows system should be easily identified as such so problems with the data can be addressed on the system that created it. :>: -----Original Message----- :>: From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On :>: Behalf Of Gilbert Cardenas :>: Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 6:11 AM :>: To: [email protected] :>: Subject: FTP variable block dataset from z/OS to Windows and back :>: :>: Does anyone know if the following limitation still applies? :>: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg21188301 :>: :>: I have a request to ftp a z/OS variable blocked dataset to a windows :>: server and then be able to ftp that dataset back to a z/OS system. I am :>: not privy to all the details about why they want to do this, just been :>: asked if it is possible to do? I'm guessing they want to make some :>: minor tweaks to the dataset and re-upload. :>: :>: Anyhow, can this be done and if so, can you share any samples? :>: :>: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- :>: For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, :>: send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
