Thank you all for your valuable advice.
I already found many of the answers to my questions, and some books:
REXX for VSE:
https://www-05.ibm.com/e-business/linkweb/publications/servlet/pbi.wss?CTY=US&FNC=SRX&PBL=SC33-6642-09
User's Guide for Barnard FTP:
ftp://public.dhe.ibm.com/s390/zos/vse/pdf3/ipv6vse/iesipu41.pdf
REXX VSAMIO and some examples in the FTP user's guide answered all my
questions a) to d)
I will try all this next week at my customer's site.
(both REXX EXECIO and FTP can work with VSE libraries directly, which is
still more interesting for my use case)
Thank you again,
kind regards
Bernd
Am 28.02.2020 um 22:26 schrieb Tony Thigpen:
Bernd,
a) & b) Contact me off-list. I work with Jeff Barnard and I actually
wrote and maintain all the EZA and other programming APIs for Barnard
Systems TCP product. While I don't personally work with the FTP
client, I can get you directly to Jeff who does.
There are a lot of options with BSI FTP client and server and one may
address your issues.
c) As for REXX access to ESDS files, that is not available with
EXECIO. EXECIO is only for sequential files. What you want is VSAMIO.
It supports read/write/update to VSAM KSDS,ESDS,RRDS files.
d) They are available from IBM's site. If you are having problems, I
can send you those manuals in PDF format.
e) Not all sorts support the same extended functions. IBM came first,
then you saw CA-Sort and SyncSort. Those later two supported what IBM
supported at the time. Then, when SyncSort added a bunch of output
options, CA did the same thing, but did it differently using an output
'subsystem'. Then, IBM had to catch up, but they again did it
differently. They have continued to diverge.
Tony Thigpen
Bernd Oppolzer wrote on 2/28/20 3:38 PM:
Hello list,
I have some VSE related questions, and I have not been successful in
finding answers using Google etc.
Is this the right forum, or is there another VSE-specific forum?
Some of my questions:
a) At our site, a FTP client from Barnard (?) name BST... is installed.
When retrieving a file from the PC, I cannot write a SAM-ESDS file,
only "real" ESDS. What are the parameters to write SAM-ESDS?
b) Can I convince FTP to write fixed length records (say 80), padded
with blanks,
although the sending PC file has variable length records (by nature)?
c) When using REXX on VSE, what are the parameters to read "real"
ESDS using EXECIO?
I only have a working example which writes a SAM-ESDS :-(
and one that reads SYSIPT
d) Do (free?) manuals exist for REXX on VSE and for (Barnard's) FTP ?
e) CA-SORT does not accept the STOPAFT Parameter, documented with
IBM-Sort,
but there is a NRECS-Parameter on the OUTPUT statement (IIRC).
I always thought that the different sort tools would accept the same
parameters :-(
is there a free documentation of "our" variant of CA-SORT ?
Many thanks,
have a nice weekend
Bernd
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