On 2016-09-06 12:28, Charles Mills wrote:
> Isn't that a universal problem that transcends FTP?
>
I believe not universal. EOF is signaled at:
// DD DSN=NULLFILE
... but not at:
// DD UNIT=SYSALLDA,SPACE=(1,0)
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Pinion
> Sent: Tuesday, September 06, 2016 10:57 AM
>
> And one thing to be aware of when using concatenated data sets as input to
> z/OS FTP. If the first or an intervening data set is empty (assuming a valid
> EOF has been written to the empty data set) and the following data sets are
> not empty, EOF is signaled without processing the following non-empty data
> sats.
On 2016-09-06 12:32, Charles Mills wrote:
>
>> FTP was written by a group of people who were (IMO) people that never saw
> a MF computer and had no concept of how it worked
>
> True beyond a shadow of a doubt. FTP was written by UNIX people for UNIX.
>
> Just sayin'
>
But there are some accommodations for record-structured filesystems, such as
STRU R and MODE B.
-- gil
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