On 2016-04-20, at 08:06, Nims,Alva John (Al) wrote: > Looking at the same manual, I do not think it can be done "Automatically" I > think the command you mention and/or one of the DBCS based subcommands (BIG5, > EUckanji, ...) has to be done first. > > I would think that to do something automatically, you would have create a > program (REXX) that checks the file and invokes FTP to send the file after > initializing the setup within FTP. > It can be worse than that. Imagine I'm sitting at a non-z client connected to a z server on which I'm not entitled to run a program (REXX), but I would like that server to take whatever it finds, CP037, 1047, 500, perhaps even 819 and convert it to UTF-8 for transmission to me.
I'm imagining something like the pax option -o"fromfiletag, to=UTF-8" described in SA23-2280-02 z/OS UNIX System Services Command Reference so, "SITE SBDATACONN=(fromfiletag,UTF-8)". If pax can read the file attributes, why can't FTP? Should work as well for a PUT, even as FTP preserves RECFM, RECL, ... when writing to an existing Classic data set. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
