On Tue, 1 Sep 2015 08:01:42 -0700, Charles Mills wrote:

>I have a legacy dataset in VB format. I would like to FTP it to a PC (1)
>translating the record data to ASCII and (2) preserving the LLBB record
>control words. (Don't need the block control words.) I tried the obvious
>ASCII and QUOTE SITE RDW but FTP has translated my RDWs to ASCII (rendering
>them useless of course). Does anyone have a clever trick to translate the
>"data" portion of the records to ASCII but preserve the LLBBs?
>
>This is a one-time development chore, not a nightly production job. I'm not
>fussy about code pages and so forth. The dataset is small: 30 records, 20K
>total.
>
>One of you UNIX experts: should I just translate it to ASCII on z/OS first
>and then FTP it in binary with RDWs? Would someone be so kind as to share
>the command to do the translate? Again, the existing dataset is legacy MVS,
>and I need to preserve LLBBs.
>
>

Not Unix, but...

//*                                           
//STEP1   EXEC PGM=SORT                       
//*                                           
//SYSOUT    DD SYSOUT=*                       
//SORTIN    DD DISP=OLD,DSN=VB-EBCDIC       
//SORTOUT   DD DISP=(,CATLG,DELETE),          
//             SPACE=(TRK,(5,5),RLSE),        
//             DSN=VB-ASCII                   
//SYSIN     DD *                              
  OUTFIL BUILD=(1,4,5,TRAN=ETOA)              
  OPTION COPY                                 
/*                                            

... or use dataset pipes (fromdsn -l rdw -s IBM-???? -t IBM-???? ...) 
http://www.dovetail.com/docs/coz/dsp-ref_fromdsn.html


Norbert Friemel

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