Hi, I'd appreciate any information on the usage of RDW option when ftp'ing a file from the host (MVS) to a workstation. Per the manual this is the definition RDW Specifies that Variable Record Descriptors (RDW) are treated as if they were part of the record and not discarded during ftp transmission of VB or VBS data sets in other than block mode. RDW information is stored in a binary halfword. Transfer files in binary to avoid translation problems that can occur if you transfer this binary field in EBCDIC or ASCII.
I was told that this can be used to ftp files that have occurs depending on in the record layout. But I am not able to comprehend how exactly I should use it- For example I am "GET"ting a VB file from the mainframe. Would I do something like this? c:\>ftp ftp>open myhost enter credentials ftp>QUITE SITE RDW ftp>bin ftp>get 'userid.variable.blocked.dataset' pcfile.txt Thanks ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
