Werner Kuehnel wrote: <begin extract> When I ftp this file binary with "quote site lrecl=582 recfm=fb" all records are written contigously in chunks of 582 bytes. A second ftp (within z/OS) then splits up the records at x'0D25', but additionally at byte 582, which is wrong when a record flows over into the next record. All attempts to get the right format failed up to now. </end extract>
This language is less than pellucid, but the words ". . . wrong when a record flows over into the next record." do strongly suggest that a RECFM value of VBS---Variable [length], Blocked, Spanned---be specified instead of VB. Here VBS means in effect that a [logical] record can span one or more [physical] blocks. Rube Goldberg schemes that resort to UNIX processing to cope with the putative deficiencies of some IBM access method do sometimes 'work', just as it is possible to travel from London to Paris via Okahoma City; but they are ugly resource hogs. Worse, they perpetuate ignorance of these AMs. John Gilmore, Ashland, MA 01721 - USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
