Unfortunately, you can't terse/unterse a PDSE and some loadlibs, and
sometimes XMIT has limits in some shops to the number of members that
can be offloaded in XMIT. If you want to be sure that your process works
regardless of the source format or size, you can IEBCOPY unload and
reload it. I have a utility that looks at the first byte of the unloaded
file to know if the source was a PDS or a PDSE so I can recreate the new
file.
Thank you and best regards,
Billy Ashton
------ Original Message ------
From "Steve Beaver" <[email protected]>
To [email protected]
Date 12/18/2025 2:52:52 PM
Subject Re: Grrr! Yes, TSO TRANSMIT destroys PDSes (Rant)
Here is an option. AMATERSE will handle a whole PDS. Then download it and send
it and then upload it and reverse the AMATERSE
Sent from my iPhone
No one said I could type with one thumb
On Dec 18, 2025, at 13:20, Charles Mills <[email protected]> wrote:
Yes, TRANSMIT, not RECEIVE.
Why not use 3120 to begin with? Good idea. I used SDB, which is also often a
good idea -- just not in this case.
Charles
On Thu, 18 Dec 2025 13:53:06 -0500, Phil Smith III <[email protected]> wrote:
We've never had a problem either. We distribute our product as a Windows .exe
(ouch) which uses InstallShield to force acceptance of a license. It then drops
a binary blob onto disk. That gets uploaded (F 80) and RECEIVEd, which produces
one PDS--also F 80--containing several members. Each of THOSE members is itself
an XMITted library, and RECEIVEing those gets you the installation media. Some
of the libraries are BLKSIZE 3120, some are larger.
So Charles, I think you're doing ?something? wrong.
Wait...you're XMITting into a PDS with a large blocksize? What is that large
blocksize, and if you're putting XMITted files into it, why not use 3120 (or
8000, or some other multiple of 80? Maybe that's the problem?
Apologies if this is naïve.
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List <[email protected]> On Behalf Of
Lennie Bradshaw
Sent: Thursday, December 18, 2025 1:35 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Grrr! Yes, TSO TRANSMIT destroys PDSes (Rant)
Just tested this on my z/OS 3.1 system and I have differing results to you.
Existing blksize was respected.
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