On Sat, 24 Jul 2021 12:01:09 -0500, Kirk Wolf wrote:

>Sorry for joining this thread late.
>
>You are correct Larry - the z/OS C library has very little help for PDS 
>processing.   I wrote an RFE in 2015, but I don't expect to want it 
>anymore if/when IBM responds :-)
>https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/rfe/execute?use_case=viewRfe&CR_ID=80811
>
>We recently released two new shell command utilities in Co:Z which have 
>all sorts of options for loading/unloading PDS/PDSEs to/from zFS files.
>
Nice.

Why is the "//" required?  It might be presumed.  But it leaves syntactic
leeway for future extension to UNIX<->UNIX copy.

>https://www.dovetail.com/docs/zos-utilities/dsp-ref_getpds.html

There's no "-l record" option.  That format, provided by allocation is
seldom used, but needed to support files containing a line-separator
as data.  (Is this "l4", not mentioned in the list of option values?)

>https://dovetail.com/docs/zos-utilities/dsp-ref_putpds.html
>
is -i l4 or FILE DATA(RECORD) supported?

If the -l or -s option is omitted, are the tag values of the source files
individually respected?  (pax does some of this, however poorly.)
JCL respects the FILEDATA of a tagged source file (undocumented)

How are UNICODE conversion errors treated/reported?

Thanks,
gil

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