On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 17:36:47 -0600, Roger Bolan wrote: > >If what you want is to take a PDS, move it through the network with FTP, >through non-MVS systems, and back to a PDS on another MVS system, I always >find that the safest and most reliable way to do that is to TERSE the >original PDS, then use binary mode FTP for all hops in the move, and then >unterse it back into a PDS at the final system. This preserves all the DCB >attributes and simplifies the FTP commands needed. The only thing to watch >out for is that when you unterse it directly to a PDS, you have to remember >to specify directory blocks when allocating the output PDS. > Bummer. Won't TRANSMIT/RECEIVE automate this for you? (How would you unterse to a PDS except "directly"? -- or are you thinking of IEBCOPY unload; TERSE; FTP; unTERSE; IEBCOPY load?)
> ... If you are >doing FTP from the MVS to get the tersed file, you need commands like >BINARY >LOCSITE recfm=fb lrecl=1024 cylinders primary=100 secondary=10 blksize=0 > FTP your TRANSMIT unloaded file to a UNIX file. This spares you all the allocation mickeymouse. You can RECEIVE directly from an allocated UNIX file with the RECEIVE INDD form. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@bama.ua.edu with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
