On Sun, 14 Feb 2021 16:26:28 -0500, Bob Bridges wrote: >As a contractor I have to upload my REXX tools to a new client's mainframe >every so often, and I find FTP is unavailable for the purpose maybe half the >time. They all use different 3270 emulators, but of course the emulators >all use IND$FILE, and they all allow you to upload one file at a time or to >create a multi-file set. I've found that it's not impossible to use their >emulator to create a test upload of multiple files (just two or three), and >inspect the result to see how the syntax works in that particular product. >Then I write a VBS or VBA program to create such a file naming not one or >two REXX modules but 50. > How do you get your 50 files to the desktop side?
How many such sites lack a zip archiver on the desktop side? How many such sites lack jar on the z side? How many such sites have a version of Rexx on the desktop side? How do you deal with ASCII<->EBCDIC? How do you deal with <CR><LF>? Does IBM consider IND$FILE supported? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
