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> From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List 
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Paul Gilmartin
> Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 9:43 AM
> To: IBM-MAIN@BAMA.UA.EDU
> Subject: Re: Keep only the tail of the dataset
> 

[snip]

> Ah, but FTP has the (LOC)SITE RDW command.  Alas, DD PATH=...
> supports no analogous FILEDATA=RDW option.  With FILEDATA=BINARY,
> RDWs are entirely disregarded and the data are streamed; with
> FILEDATA=TEXT, the RDWs are replaced by 0x15, which might be
> spoofed by binary data.
> 
> -- gil

That is WEIRD! The BSAM interface actually modifies the binary byte
stream with FILEDATA=DATA and RECFM=V by removing the RDW? That is,
like, totally gross! What wippo thought __that__ up?!?

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John McKown
Senior Systems Programmer
HealthMarkets
Keeping the Promise of Affordable Coverage
Administrative Services Group
Information Technology

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