Many years ago, I captured the TSO HELP for XMIT and RECEIVE and converted it 
to a more CMS-like HELP on VM. We had several MVS programmers whose only reason 
for logging on to VM was to view those HELP files. 

Regards,
Richard Schuh


> -----Original Message-----
> From: The IBM z/VM Operating System [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Behalf Of Mike Walter
> Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2006 7:17 AM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: SENDFILE to MVS
> 
> 
> Shimon,
> 
> There is full help for the RECEIVE (and XMIT, aka TRANSMIT) 
> command on 
> TSO, on our systems I can see the help by entering: H RECEIVE
> It's not *good* help like we are used to on VM mind you, but it does 
> explain the command syntax.
> 
> >  I still have not seen how to receive as 
> > a member to an existing library.
> 
> I *think* you may want:
> 
> receive
> <when prompted>
> DSN(your.pdsname(repmbr)) 
> 
> If the dsn is not prefixed by your TSO userid, then you'll 
> need to quote 
> it, as in:
> DSN('your.pdsname(repmbr)')
> 
> Personally, I just RECEIVE the file as a flat file and then 
> use ISPF to 
> copy the member to the PDS.
> It is all-to-easy to forget to include the PDS member name, 
> in which case 
> you destroy the PDS - replacing it with the flat file.
> Your gun, your foot.  :-)
> 
> Earlier in the thread, SENDFILE and TRANSMIT/XMIT modify the 
> file sent by 
> packing it into "NETDATA format", and then unpack it at the 
> receiving end.
> Regardless of the actual maximum LRECL, the file will be 
> broken down into 
> 80 byte records for its journey.  Of the 80 bytes, there are 
> prefixes on 
> at least some, perhaps all (been a while since I looked at 
> Netdata format) 
> records.  There can be "significant overhead " doing that for 
> large files 
> -- on both sides of the transmission (whether they are both 
> VM, TSO, or a 
> mix).  Consider whether FTP might be a better alternative 
> (especially if 
> using the scripting VMFTP package).
> 
> Mike Walter 
> Hewitt Associates 
> Any opinions expressed herein are mine alone and do not necessarily 
> represent the opinions or policies of Hewitt Associates. 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> "Shimon Lebowitz" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
> 
> Sent by: "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <[email protected]>
> 09/27/2006 08:50 AM
> Please respond to
> "The IBM z/VM Operating System" <[email protected]>
> 
> 
> 
> To
> [email protected]
> cc
> 
> Subject
> Re: SENDFILE to MVS
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> You got me on track.
> After SENDFILE from CMS, SDSF shows 
> an MVS spool file named RSCSnnnn with
> DEST of the target TSO userid.
> 
> In TSO type TSO RECEIVE
> 
> In response to the prompt, type DA(some.mvs.dsn)
> 
> I still have not seen how to receive as 
> a member to an existing library.
> 
> Thanks!
> Shimon
> 
> 
> On 27 Sep 2006 at 8:01, Nick Laflamme wrote:
> 
> > It's been more than a decade since I last used TSO 
> (Hurray!), but, yes, 
> > TSO users can do something similar to a receive to receive 
> datasets from 
> 
> > spool space. TSO's counterpart to SENDFILE is XMIT, as I recall.
> > 
> > Nick
> > 
> > Shimon Lebowitz wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I seem to remember hearing once upon a time, that 
> > > TSO somehow supports SENDFILE.
> > >
> > > Is this true? What I mostly am interested in is using 
> > > SENDFILE on CMS to send files to a TSO user,
> > > via an RSCS TCPNJE link which we have between
> > > the two systems. (We actually also have SNANJE,
> > > if that matters).
> > >
> > > And can TSO send files back to CMS?
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Shimon
> > > 
> 
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