site rather than quote? -- Donald Grinsell State of Montana 406-444-2983 [email protected]
"If Stupidity got us into this mess, then why can't it get us out?" ~ Will Rogers -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 2015 12:47 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: CP to a fixed length output file On Tue, 7 Apr 2015 09:57:15 -0700, Sri h Kolusu wrote: > >Use TRAILINGBLANKS TRUE parm as explained here > >http://publibz.boulder.ibm.com/cgi-bin/bookmgr_OS390/BOOKS/f1a1b4b1/18.154? > So, I try: Remote system type is MVS. ftp> TRAILINGBLANKS TRUE ?Invalid command (Well, of course; this was a Linux client.) So: ftp> quote TRAILINGBLANKS TRUE 500 unknown command TRAILINGBLANKS Now what? Anyway, I'm a staunch advocate of the principle of minimal munging -- Leave the data as you found them. By default, don't remove trailing blanks -- if that's what the programmer wanted he could have used RECFM=VB. Don't add blanks, not even to empty lines (shame on ISPF EDIT!) There should be no need for _EDC_ZERO_RECLEN; if there's an empty record, keep it. Etc. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
