On Tue, 25 Oct 2022 at 12:37, Paul Gorlinsky <[email protected]> wrote:
> Funny Results: > > The DSN has to be a SEQuential dataset. XMIT with reallocate it to > FB/80/3120 ... > If it is a PDS, XMIT complains that it is not a sequential DSN... > But for this purpose a PDS *member* is treated as a sequential dataset, and works fine with XMIT. Indeed PDSs containing XMIT data members are fairly common for distribution. > So, Either XMIT to a temp file, then copy to a PDS/DSN with a larger block > size or apply the ZAP like Lionel suggested... > That zap appears to simply change the blocksize from one fixed value to another. Better would be to remove it entirely, and allow it fall through to JCL/DYNALLOC or SDB values. But that may take more than a simple zap. > I did take the XMIT output and copied it to a PDSE that was FB 80 32720 > and successfully RECEIVED the member without moving it .... > Yeah - RECEIVE has always been forgiving. If its wretched prompt could just be bypassed... Tony H. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
