I'm not sure that a straight COPYFILE will do what you want.
If you just copy the file and change the RECFM to V, it may not strip off the trailing spaces. At least, it didn't when I just tried it with my console file. I issued "COPYF / = = D(RECFM V" from the FileList. It remained the same number of blocks on my 192 disk, where I copied it, as it was on the 191 disk. I tried it from CMS as "COPYF TEST CONSOLE A = = D(RECFM V" and got the same results.
When I edited the original, changed the record format, then saved it, the number of blocks went from 45 to 15.
Nora Graves
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-----Original Message-----
From: VM/ESA and z/VM Discussions [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Shair
Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 3:40 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Quick way to change RECFM?
At 02:23 PM 1/5/2006, you wrote:
>Loren,
>
>The files are being brought from to VM from MVS via FTP.
>Maybe my dim-witted memory is using the Network Systems "HyperChannel"
>software, which *did* allow you to read one RECFM and write a different
>one. FTP is a beast of a completely different color.
Is it? "QUOTE SITE RECFM V" won't delete trailing blanks when
transferring from MVS?
Remember when mainframes had devices called "tape drives"?
Copying the file to 3590 is still the fastest way I know!
Bob Shair
Open Systems Consulting
Champaign, Illinois
