On Thu, 10 Jan 2013 09:24:13 -0600, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
>
>I know ways to cheat it if I have a z/OS server and OS X/Linux/DOS client
>for both transfers, but that's likely not what your customer needs.
>
Someone asked me a question about this privately, so I'm replying
to myself. I tried (schematically):
ftp MVS
...
binary
quote type E
quote mode B
cd OLD.VBPDS
get MEMBER
cd NEW.VBPDS
put MEMBER
Drat! It almost worked, but not quite. Empty lines in the
OLD were converted to blanks in the NEW. I consider
this an integrity flaw. Why, why, why can't IBM refrain from
its compulsion to munge users' data!
(Is there a setting to control this? And if there is, the default
is wrong.)
-- gil
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