On VM at least TERSE creates a F 1024 file, wouldn't it do that on MVS too?


2010/12/21 Rob van der Heij <[email protected]>

> Friends,
>
> When a RECFM V file is transferred through download/upload with a PC,
> we need to protect the record layout. And when it's non-text you can't
> stick CRLF between the lines. On VM we normally have people use the
> PACK option of COPYFILE, which puts enough info in the file to restore
> the structure.
>
> What do people do on MVS? I thought a simple IEBGENER to convert to VB
> or whatever would do, but that does not seem to be common practice...
> does TERSE maybe put stuff in to retain the record structure? And does
> our DETERSE recover that?
>
> Thanks, Rob
>



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Kris Buelens,
IBM Belgium, VM customer support

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