On Thu, 2 Jan 2014 21:26:27 +0100, Massimo Biancucci wrote: > >After that you'll have a binary file on your workstation and you can use it >if you have a program that can manage such a file (remember no translation >was done from EBCDIC to ASCII). > Beware! The stupidity of the implementation is that if one tries to reverse the process and GET it back to another z/OS, the conversion is not reversed and the RDWs remain as part of the data. I suppose this is WAD.
>Usually I don't care if I have VB files and I use a standard ASCII ftp. >Every record will be terminated with a CRLF and I can use it with standard >applications (like Notepad, Excel and so on). > >When I have to use RDW is, for instance, the case of SPANNED records (for >instance SMF records). This case I need to save every single bit from the >original in order to use it. > But it doesn't save the BDWs. I have heard of utilities that are sensitive to block boundaries. An alternative might be to override to RECFM=U in a DD statement and transfer as binary. This preserves RDWs and BDWs. >A diifferent scenario could be for file like "zip". This case I usually use >Undefined Format and binary transfer. > For a .zip, don't you want to discard the BDWs and RDWs? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
