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.

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