Andrew, Barry has implemented this in MXG many, many moons ago.
If you have MXG you can look at how he handles the BDW and RDW in the unformatted VBS records. Ron > -----Original Message----- > From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Andrew Rowley > Sent: Wednesday, January 09, 2013 10:12 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [IBM-MAIN] Using DFS/SMB binary mode for VB datasets > > Hi, > > Does anyone know whether DFS/SMB can treat the RDW as part of the data > if you mount a VB file in binary mode? Reading a VB file in binary mode > requires the record length information, as record delimiters can't be > inserted. A search of the documentation didn't find anything obvious (to > me). > > Or perhaps DFS/SMB can be persuaded to treat the file as RECFM=U, without > splitting it into records at all? > > The aim is to read SMF data from a PC by mapping the SMF dump datasets to > a network drive on the PC. > > Thanks, > > Andrew Rowley > > -- > Andrew Rowley > Black Hill Software Pty Ltd > > [email protected] > +61 413 302 386 > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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
