On Tue, 18 May 2010 12:39:36 -0600, Howard Brazee wrote: >I have a job that creates a LRECL=7104 record. Most of this a >variable length comment. It gets FTPd to a Unix machine and loaded >into a database. They want the extra spaces removed. > >I doubt if the optimal solution would be to make it variable length, >and wonder if I should create a delimiter then run it through some >kind of script on the Unix side. > Creating the data set as RECFM=V on the z/OS side and omitting any filtering downstream seems optimum to me. What arguments favor a more complicated process?
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