On Thu, 7 Jan 2016 07:02:45 -0800, Ed Jaffe wrote: >I have been in this exact situation. IIRC, it was a z/VM guest with no >network connections. (Users were DIALing in.) We tried to send a large >amount of binary data in 80-column format to its RDR using the z/VM >SPOOL command from another guest and kept running into delimiter issues >reading in the job.
Ok. Now I see a use case. Thanks. >We randomly tried every possibility we could think >of and none of them worked. Eventually, we created a checklist and >systematically used an editor FIND function to locate a working >combination. A real PITA and many hours wasted... I like Robert Rosenberg's solution: sort the file on the first two columns and look for a suitable gap in the sorted data. Probably a lot quicker than your checklist. -- Tom Marchant ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
