On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 4:45 AM, Kirk Wolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> You are right, my response was a little rude. I apologize.
>
> A PDF is simply a stream of binary data - records are of no
> consequence.   You can store a PDF in any kind of dataset you want, so
> long as you can read it from your COBOL program and load it into the
> BLOB.   RECFM=U, BLKSIZE=27998 seems the most natural to me.   You
> might also consider a zFS file in say /tmp.
>
> Kirk Wolf
>
>
>
Kirk, thanks for that and sorry for my earlier curt response.  I must have
been feeling particularily grumpy when I wrote that.

Jim McAlpine

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