On Fri, 3 Sep 2010 10:52:46 -0400, John Eells wrote: >>> >> From the URL you cited yesterday: >> >> Linkname: IBM Enhanced HOLDDATA for z/OS and OS/390 >> URL: http://service.software.ibm.com/holdata/390holddata.html >> ... > >It's much simpler to follow Mark's suggestion. Always get the whole >thing--that is, always get the full.txt file. It's just not that much >data (about 2.2M untersed), and it relieves you of having to figure out >when you got it last as long as you get it more often than once every >731 days. > >You can also use RECEIVE ORDER if your z/OS system can connect to IBM, >so you single-source your PTFs and HOLDDATA and get them both in one shot. > I cited an unreliable source?
But I should have mentioned for the OP that to test an example I used the smallest file available, not necessarily the best choice for production. And I'm uncomfortable that the HOLDDATA are in ASCII and subject to the vagaries of ASCII->EBCDIC translation. Are all the significant characters in HOLDDATA CP-invariant? I suppose this can be controlled with "locsite sbdataconn=(IBM-???,ISO8859-1)". I'd be more comfortable with EBCDIC for BINARY transfer. -- 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
