There are several facilities for encoding variable-length recrds into FB, e.g., XMIT. A bit kludgy, but it works.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Gary Weinhold [weinh...@dkl.com] Sent: Thursday, December 15, 2022 9:43 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: Transmitting SMF records I'm glad there was a solution. But the underlying problem seems to be that z/OS FTP appears to be limited to processing a binary (image) transfer as a stream of bytes unless the transfer is between a z/OS client and z/OS server. IBM RECFM of VB and VBS seem to be quite well defined and I don't know why, if the receiving z/OS FTP is informed that the data stream is actually VB(S) format, either by SITE/LOCSITE FTP commands or by the DCB of a preallocated output dataset, it can't invoke the same routines that it would if the sender was a z/OS system. As an alternative, it wouldn't seem very difficult to create a utility to read the FTPed data (received as a sequential file with an arbitrary record length) and reformat the data to write a VB(S) file. I've known of windows-based utilities that process FTPed SMF data (raw or tersed) so the technical knowledge is out there. Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2022 13:22:27 -0600 From: Boesel Guillaume <guilla...@boesel.fr> Subject: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: Transmitting SMF records Hi Rex, Great. You are right, tersing file from tape to tape works well. It took around 80-90 MSU during an hour for just one file but it worked. Hoping that Ituriel will be able to read this file. Regards and thanks ! Gary Weinhold Senior Application Architect DATAKINETICS | Data Performance & Optimization Phone:+1.613.523.5500 x216 Email: weinh...@dkl.com Visit us online at http://secure-web.cisco.com/1vK3ImFMcgJFz1-podVzEvvVNPbvWjVSieyjkh6kLxBdI18iG5QnqSs8i3kvg0VuH7204uOmMnKxzNWjytZKTENLkVxzqlS6qikvi5yyFIoZCAoeXpVZj5oxOvcUQ3Ser-p1bEnMNTL9HSqHk87DLceE1T02i4JoEtLUqRh-ODRJC2ht43WZl0yLIFPIRwB34PCCKDUw30GrIIxH60SKjQjUQPjlTkmBmKsMJ4ecTK6lrN7uRrBJd5ldQrR3ng7w_T4uwNU_2lim1m5EAEPW1iWz7pc-f38LXw6hw_5oBwp4lS0xjTkyjxSmvz40O8fQljIGe_yml36Zm4s7dRvd4Mtp8Ufji1epM_WSXVoZJ-_wkJRyjjMTjGaoW5QBT-9890J4jC7Ric1OtjYH1N8HRdseY5eoVBhZAd0rmIRykJumh7RV4I3qACvxREuMo4gvP/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.DKL.com E-mail Notification: The information contained in this email and any attachments is confidential and may be subject to copyright or other intellectual property protection. If you are not the intended recipient, you are not authorized to use or disclose this information, and we request that you notify us by reply mail or telephone and delete the original message from your mail system. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
