Gil,
Are your questions because you want to use the utilities, or just
pedagogical? :-)
-l l4 is compatible with FILEDATA=RECORD, and I think predates it. It
sounds like your issue is that we didn't use the IBM terminology?
Unicode conversion errors (UTF-8) print an error to stderr and exits <> 0
support for tagging is currently limited to what is documented: getpds
has an option for tagging output zFS files. Adding a processing option
to putpds to respect tags is a reasonable thing to want.
Kirk Wolf
Dovetailed Technologies
http://dovetail.com
On 7/24/21 3:24 PM, Paul Gilmartin wrote:
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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