On Thu, 19 Nov 2015 12:18:23 -0600, Elardus Engelbrecht wrote: > >>RECEIVE is extraordinarily ill-suited to automation: >>o The user has no a priori control over which spool file will be RECEIVEd. >>o The user must be present to reply to a prompt. > >That is very true. JES2 simply gives to you what it seemed to be the first. I >could not find the reason/algorithm for how RECEIVE and JES2 decide what to >present to the receiver. > Deep within the Rexx SDSF API, a program can cause SDSF to ALLOCATE a DSID to a SYS00nnn DD name. The programmer could use that in RECEIVE INDD(SYS00nnn) (I think; I haven't tried it.), gaining control of what to RECEIVE.
>I recommend using FTP instead of XMIT/RECEIVE for another reason - Speed and >no filling up of JES2 spool. > I like a combination of sftp and pax. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
