Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files (fwd)

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Ip
Wow...Thanks for the reply. Oh, it is correct that a windows program will process the VB files from z/OS. It expects the Prefix contain only the length of Data part and the format is indeed BBLL (the length is at the 3rd and 4th byte). In addition, it returns the same file format (BBLL as

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files (fwd)

2008-09-12 Thread Ted MacNEIL
Oh, it is correct that a windows program will process the VB files from z/OS. It expects the Prefix contain only the length of Data part and the format is indeed BBLL (the length is at the 3rd and 4th byte). In addition, it returns the same file format (BBLL as prefix 'RDW') from PC to z/OS...

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files (fwd)

2008-09-12 Thread John McKown
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Paul Ip wrote: Wow...Thanks for the reply. Oh, it is correct that a windows program will process the VB files from z/OS. It expects the Prefix contain only the length of Data part and the format is indeed BBLL (the length is at the 3rd and 4th byte). In addition, it

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files (fwd)

2008-09-12 Thread Scott Barry
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:18:52 -0500, John McKown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 12 Sep 2008, Paul Ip wrote: Wow...Thanks for the reply. Oh, it is correct that a windows program will process the VB files from z/OS. It expects the Prefix contain only the length of Data part and the format

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files (fwd)

2008-09-12 Thread Walt Farrell
On Fri, 12 Sep 2008 11:04:12 -0500, Paul Ip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So I think it is different from what FTP does with RDW: (where = length of Data + 4) x''+Data It's not merely different from what FTP does with RDW but from what z/OS does with RDW. I doubt that FTP is putting any

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files (fwd)

2008-09-12 Thread Paul Ip
For SAS/Windows processing, frequently I send z/OS SMF data (RECFM=VBS/VB) to Windows using a binary-format PUT and overriding the input DD with RECFM=U; the PUT command is used with the //DD:your_jcl_ddname which handles the external local file specification. Then, with SAS, a specific

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files (fwd)

2008-09-12 Thread Scott Barry
As you can see, one cannot expect to rebuild an RDW from a non-MVS undefined record-length. Scott Barry -- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET

Re: z/OS 1.7 FTP RDW option for VB files (fwd)

2008-09-12 Thread Kirk Wolf
Paul, The free Co:Z toolkit allows you to support either '00xx' or 'xx00' RDWs for transfers in either direction. It uses SSH rather than FTP as its underlying connection protocol, however. See: http://dovetail.com/docs/coz/dsp-ref_fromdsn.html In addition, you can also specify -l mfrdw, which