On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:13:02 -0600, Mark Zelden <[email protected]> wrote:
>For z/OS to z/OS, I have FTPed DFDSS format dumps directly with no problem. >From disk to tape or disk to disk. Tape, without changing the BLKSIZE is >a problem. I think Barbara mentioned she has done this, but I never tried >overriding it. I just ran a quick test of a full volume DFDSS dump to tape with adding "BLKSIZE=27998" to output DD, then FTPed to tape in another sysplex, and I was able to restore it without a problem. > I think I mentioned this before, but for FTPing full volume >dumps, tape to tape, I prefer to use FDR with "FORMAT=SPLIT" which >restricts the BLKSIZE to 32K. Then as already has been posted >several times you use "MODE B" and "TYPE E" (or EBCDIC). >Tersing and untersing as an extra (CPU intensive) unnecessary step >if you are FTPing between z/OS systems. > Mark -- Mark Zelden - Zelden Consulting Services - z/OS, OS/390 and MVS mailto:[email protected] Mark's MVS Utilities: http://www.mzelden.com/mvsutil.html Systems Programming expert at http://expertanswercenter.techtarget.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
