> I remember I have seen a utility listed in xephon Update for MVS that > converts an MVS dataset to an 80 bytes files. And, it converts it back to > MVS dataset again. > It is an assembler source code. I was using it to deliver files to > customers.
It's not the dataset format; the CMS FTP client and server don't do OS simulation I/O, and thus can't read the data set off the disk. The trick of using MOVEFILE to move the file to a CMS minidisk allows normal CMS I/O methods to work, and thus to transfer the file.
