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 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
