On Wed, 31 Aug 2022 at 06:14, Lennie Dymoke-Bradshaw < [email protected]> wrote:
> The TSO commands TRANSMIT and RECEIVE are very useful for moving data > around, particularly as TRANSMIT produces an 80-byte LRECL which works > easily with in-stream JCL. > > But has anyone worked out a reliable mechanism to automate the use of the > RECEIVE command? > I doubt that there is any reliable method. There can almost always be an unexpected prompt. > It always issues queries to the user. How can the responses to these > queries > be simply handled? > > I feel sure someone has worked this out. > RECEIVE is not the only program that understands the format written by XMIT et al. For instance there is https://www.cbttape.org/ftp/cbt/CBT571.zip that provides a compatible program that doesn't prompt (most people run it in batch, but it works under TSO too, of course), and generally doesn't require APF authorization. Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
