On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:36:39 -0600, Jack J. Woehr wrote: >Tom Conley wrote: >> Try transferring a VB file to a VB file with a z/OS to z/OS transfer. > TYPE E; MODE B. I used to see problems with STRU R and RECFM=VBS; I can't recreate them lately. >Can't you just move things like this to HFS and use scp? > Adding complexity rarely simplifies things. Oh! Did you mean move to HFS and leave them there? Sounds like a plan. Is there scp for z/OS? But there's sftp.
On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:04:06 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: >>> >> No. CBTTAPE.org packages in XMIT format and does not require NJE. >> RECEIVE is required. > >That's even worse. You need to use the OUTDA() operand on XMIT to create >an intermediate file. Then move the file in some way (FTP? Haha!) and >then RECEIVE. A _minimum_ of one additional step! > OK, it's effective but crude. And while it may be no less error-prone than FTP, the errors are reported earlier and easier to fix. >And why oh why must you specify node.userid when using OUTDA() anyway? >Seems like OUTDA() was an afterthought and nobody had the time or could >figure out how to make the node.userid positional parameter optional for >that situation, so they just left it. <sheesh!> > RFE? Are you a betting man? On Mon, 5 Sep 2016 09:05:21 -0700, Ed Jaffe wrote: > >The other platforms live in a byte-stream world. We're the outliers... > And when MVS provided OpenEdition it added Extended Attributes, so even that became an outlier. EBCDIC? -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
